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... fact , not literal representation , but the essence of life , its underlying signifi- cance , which perhaps only metaphor and fantasy may reveal to public view . I have suggested that our awareness of our mortality fosters the impulse ...
... fact , not literal representation , but the essence of life , its underlying signifi- cance , which perhaps only metaphor and fantasy may reveal to public view . I have suggested that our awareness of our mortality fosters the impulse ...
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... fact that some poets are more " inspired " or simply more intelligent than others ; it has relatively little to do with the individual emotional make - up or experience of the poet , his uniqueness as a person . Quite the opposite , in fact ...
... fact that some poets are more " inspired " or simply more intelligent than others ; it has relatively little to do with the individual emotional make - up or experience of the poet , his uniqueness as a person . Quite the opposite , in fact ...
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... fact , his being incarcerated for treachery to the United States might be compared to doing high deeds in Hungary — at least to the extent that he put his life and reputation in actual physical jeopardy by engaging in propaganda ...
... fact , his being incarcerated for treachery to the United States might be compared to doing high deeds in Hungary — at least to the extent that he put his life and reputation in actual physical jeopardy by engaging in propaganda ...
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