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... play . Some playwrights , notably G. B. Shaw , defy that convention and keep pushing their characters offstage to take the spotlight themselves - but to the extent that Shaw's plays " work " as drama , the audience accepts the G. B. ...
... play . Some playwrights , notably G. B. Shaw , defy that convention and keep pushing their characters offstage to take the spotlight themselves - but to the extent that Shaw's plays " work " as drama , the audience accepts the G. B. ...
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... play Verse has been , until the last century , the major medium of drama . No one supposes , when he watches a play , that he is seeing life itself , though some modern drama ( e.g. , Jack Gelber's The Connection ) has attempted to make ...
... play Verse has been , until the last century , the major medium of drama . No one supposes , when he watches a play , that he is seeing life itself , though some modern drama ( e.g. , Jack Gelber's The Connection ) has attempted to make ...
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... play seems to reduce us to Doto's skepti- cism , as she wonders whether . . life is more big than a bed And full of miracles and mysteries like One man made for one woman , etcetera , etcetera . Yet for all its negation , the play ...
... play seems to reduce us to Doto's skepti- cism , as she wonders whether . . life is more big than a bed And full of miracles and mysteries like One man made for one woman , etcetera , etcetera . Yet for all its negation , the play ...
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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