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Page 79
... Perhaps it may be , as Alan Watts has remarked , that Americans are not the materialists they are sometimes accused of being : for how could anyone , taking a look at an American city , think that its inhabitants deeply cherish material ...
... Perhaps it may be , as Alan Watts has remarked , that Americans are not the materialists they are sometimes accused of being : for how could anyone , taking a look at an American city , think that its inhabitants deeply cherish material ...
Page 87
... perhaps silhouetted against the sun , and for the moment belongs to the heavens rather than to the land and sea . The word ringed makes a circle of the whole world's horizons and suggests that we see the world from the eagle's height ...
... perhaps silhouetted against the sun , and for the moment belongs to the heavens rather than to the land and sea . The word ringed makes a circle of the whole world's horizons and suggests that we see the world from the eagle's height ...
Page 221
... perhaps it has aroused our antipathies or unwittingly appealed to our sense of the comic , though the poet is serious . Most often , such a poem ails from some kind of imprecision in its conception and execution . It may be inaccurate ...
... perhaps it has aroused our antipathies or unwittingly appealed to our sense of the comic , though the poet is serious . Most often , such a poem ails from some kind of imprecision in its conception and execution . It may be inaccurate ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN alliteration aloud attitude ballad beauty bird Blake breath called child connotations dark dead dear death diction doth E. E. Cummings earth Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes face feel figures of speech flowers GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS green hand hath hear heart heaven Hurroo iambic iambic pentameter J. V. CUNNINGHAM John Johnny kind leaves light live look Lord meaning metaphor meter Milton mind moon mother myth never night o'er paraphrase pattern pleasure poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading reprinted rhythm rime Robert Frost Robert Lowell simile sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stanza star stress suggests sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought tone tree verse W. H. Auden WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind words Wordsworth Yeats