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... sound which , to my mind , ignore the true nature of the way in which rhythm operates English poetry . The first ... sound - values said to be inherent in words and in cadences . Certain words are reputed to have an elemental ...
... sound which , to my mind , ignore the true nature of the way in which rhythm operates English poetry . The first ... sound - values said to be inherent in words and in cadences . Certain words are reputed to have an elemental ...
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... sound is , of itself , suggestive of deep despair . It is more probable that the effectiveness of the lines springs from the associations produced by the word tomb , and from the similarity of sound which it bears to words and phrases ...
... sound is , of itself , suggestive of deep despair . It is more probable that the effectiveness of the lines springs from the associations produced by the word tomb , and from the similarity of sound which it bears to words and phrases ...
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... sound between this purified dummy and the original which deprive the dummy of poetic merit . In which case he will have to account for the curious fact that just those transformations which redeem it as sound , should also give it the ...
... sound between this purified dummy and the original which deprive the dummy of poetic merit . In which case he will have to account for the curious fact that just those transformations which redeem it as sound , should also give it the ...
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A. E. Housman animal sensibility archetypal artist Baudelaire beauty belief Blake blank verse cadences century childhood Cited Coleridge Common Asphodel complex contemporary convey couplet critics deep dreams elements emotional employs English poetry Essays evoke example experience expression F. W. Bateson faculties feeling flowers genius harmony Hopkins Housman human I. A. Richards ideas imagery imagination inspiration intellectual Keats language light lines literary living madness meaning memory Milton mind music of poetry mystery nature never passage passion pattern perception phrase play poem poet poet's poetic Pope prose prosody reader recognize remarkable reminds response rhyme rhythm rhythmical Robert Graves Romantic sense sensual sensuous Shakespeare Shelley significance song soul sound spirit stanza Stephen Spender suggests Swinburne Swinburne's symbol T. S. Eliot Tennyson themes theory things thought tion truth unconscious unconscious mind W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden W. R. Rodgers whole words Wordsworth Yeats's