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... DEATH Then there is this civilising love of death , by which Even music and painting tell you what else to love . Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals . The ...
... DEATH Then there is this civilising love of death , by which Even music and painting tell you what else to love . Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals . The ...
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... death as a mere border to an improving picture . Because we have neither hereditary nor direct knowledge of death It is the trigger of the literary man's biggest gun And we are happy to equate it to any conceived calm . Heaven me , when ...
... death as a mere border to an improving picture . Because we have neither hereditary nor direct knowledge of death It is the trigger of the literary man's biggest gun And we are happy to equate it to any conceived calm . Heaven me , when ...
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... death , death , death , death , Hissing melodious , neither like the bird nor like my arous'd child's heart , But edging near as privately for me rustling at my feet , Creeping thence steadily up to my ears and laving me softly all over ...
... death , death , death , death , Hissing melodious , neither like the bird nor like my arous'd child's heart , But edging near as privately for me rustling at my feet , Creeping thence steadily up to my ears and laving me softly all over ...
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