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... Eliot is writing out of what Lewis has to say about Milton , the element that is not dramatic . I do not think he allows enough to the dramatic . Eliot feels that language and poetry cannot be separated . repetition of " there will be ...
... Eliot is writing out of what Lewis has to say about Milton , the element that is not dramatic . I do not think he allows enough to the dramatic . Eliot feels that language and poetry cannot be separated . repetition of " there will be ...
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... Eliot speaks of two movements in verse , two impulses , both illus- trated in Shakespeare . One is a movement toward simplification , where one wanted to bring verse closer to the pattern of normal speech , to break down elements which ...
... Eliot speaks of two movements in verse , two impulses , both illus- trated in Shakespeare . One is a movement toward simplification , where one wanted to bring verse closer to the pattern of normal speech , to break down elements which ...
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... Eliot verse ; listen first a great deal and then try to identify it . In the third Quartet the lyric is a very ... Eliot's philosophy , the concept of the begin- ning of all experience in the experience of the senses , that becoming a ...
... Eliot verse ; listen first a great deal and then try to identify it . In the third Quartet the lyric is a very ... Eliot's philosophy , the concept of the begin- ning of all experience in the experience of the senses , that becoming a ...
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accent alliteration anapest balance beauty beginning blank verse caesura canzone combination consonants contrast couplet create developed dipodic dissyllables distinctive Donne Donne's Dryden effect elements Eliot emphasis end-stopped English verse epic falling rhythm feeling formal free verse gives a sense Greek half-line Hopkins individual lines inversion last line length light logic lyric madrigal ment meter metrical pattern metrists Milton Miss Wallerstein monosyllables move movement ottava ottava rima paragraph passage pause pentameter phrase Pindaric play poem poetry poets polysyllables Pope prose Prosody repeated repetition rhetoric rhyme words run-on line scansion sestina Shakespeare short lines single line song sonnet Sonnet 16 speech Spenser spondees sprung rhythm stress strong structure suggests suppressed beat syllable T. S. Eliot Tamburlaine Tennyson tension tetrameter thee theory thing thou thought tion tradition tremendous trimeter triple falling triple rising rhythm unstressed syllables variation vowels weight whole