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... poetry before - in nursery rimes and popular songs - and perhaps you already have a friendship , or at least a fair ac- quaintance , with some of the master poets of the English - speaking world . What this book will offer is an ...
... poetry before - in nursery rimes and popular songs - and perhaps you already have a friendship , or at least a fair ac- quaintance , with some of the master poets of the English - speaking world . What this book will offer is an ...
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... poetry in English . Although most lyrics of the past two centuries have been read on printed pages , some lyrics still are sung . If you know " Auld Lang Syne , ” you know one such poem . A lyric is often written in the first person ...
... poetry in English . Although most lyrics of the past two centuries have been read on printed pages , some lyrics still are sung . If you know " Auld Lang Syne , ” you know one such poem . A lyric is often written in the first person ...
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... poetry - to quote a recent view - " is not intrinsically any less poetic because of its subject - matter than lines about a rose flut- tering in the breeze are intrinsically more poetic because of their subject - matter . " 5 John ...
... poetry - to quote a recent view - " is not intrinsically any less poetic because of its subject - matter than lines about a rose flut- tering in the breeze are intrinsically more poetic because of their subject - matter . " 5 John ...
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