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... passage , hardly more knotty and obscure than Shakespeare , many readers reject such work , refusing to let it into their private poetic domain . Certainly they cannot call it prose . Perhaps what they reject is the attitude itself ...
... passage , hardly more knotty and obscure than Shakespeare , many readers reject such work , refusing to let it into their private poetic domain . Certainly they cannot call it prose . Perhaps what they reject is the attitude itself ...
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... passage of poetry , how many words arouse interest in this way ? For example , here are two passages of about the same length . In both , the poets are attempting to depict the ordinary , the tedium of the workaday world , so the ...
... passage of poetry , how many words arouse interest in this way ? For example , here are two passages of about the same length . In both , the poets are attempting to depict the ordinary , the tedium of the workaday world , so the ...
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... passage calls for a stress on about one of every four syllables . As verse it has a stress on about one of every two - and - a - half . It is still difficult to see the regularity of its rhythm . In the follow- ing passage brackets ...
... passage calls for a stress on about one of every four syllables . As verse it has a stress on about one of every two - and - a - half . It is still difficult to see the regularity of its rhythm . In the follow- ing passage brackets ...
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