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... dead girl but a shadowy ghost Or a dead man's voice but a distant and vain affirmation Like dream words most ) Therefore I will not speak of the undying glory of women . I will say you were young and straight and your skin fair 20 20 25 ...
... dead girl but a shadowy ghost Or a dead man's voice but a distant and vain affirmation Like dream words most ) Therefore I will not speak of the undying glory of women . I will say you were young and straight and your skin fair 20 20 25 ...
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... dead . And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on ; and so did I. I looked upon the rotting sea , And drew my eyes away ; I looked upon the rotting deck , And there the dead men lay . 240 Their beauty and ...
... dead . And they all dead did lie : And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on ; and so did I. I looked upon the rotting sea , And drew my eyes away ; I looked upon the rotting deck , And there the dead men lay . 240 Their beauty and ...
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... dead beside , Dead long ago , and I am Bishop since , And as she died so must we die ourselves , And thence ye may perceive the world's a dream . Life , how and what is it ? As here I lie In this state - chamber , dying by degrees ...
... dead beside , Dead long ago , and I am Bishop since , And as she died so must we die ourselves , And thence ye may perceive the world's a dream . Life , how and what is it ? As here I lie In this state - chamber , dying by degrees ...
Contents
poetry and use | 11 |
poetry and truth | 20 |
Questions for Study | 34 |
Copyright | |
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accents anapests beat beauty bird blank verse break breath caesura called Chromis couplet dark dead death DOLLABELLA DOTO dramatic dream Dylan Thomas DYNAMENE Eliot English enjambment experience eyes feel feet free verse Frost Ginsberg hand hear heart iambic iambic pentameter iambs imagery imagination language light look lyric madam meaning meter metrical Milton mind moon never night passage pattern pentameter phrase play poem poet poetic poetry prose Prufrock quatrain reader REFERENCES rhyme rhythm Richard Wilbur Robert Robert Lowell scansion seems sense Shakespeare Silas sing song sonnet soul sound speak speech spondee stanza stress strophe suggests sweet syllables symbolic T. S. Eliot TEGEUS tell thee things thou thought tion tradition trochee truth turn verse paragraphs Virilius voice W. D. Snodgrass Warren wind words writing