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... symbolic imagery To the extent that imagery takes on a meaning independent of the poem's statement , it becomes symbolic . Donne uses a series of figures to help us understand his love , and no matter how astonishing the figures are in ...
... symbolic imagery To the extent that imagery takes on a meaning independent of the poem's statement , it becomes symbolic . Donne uses a series of figures to help us understand his love , and no matter how astonishing the figures are in ...
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... symbolic Obviously , the three kinds of imagery I have discussed — literal , figurative and symbolic — are not mutually exclusive . The movement in poetry is always toward the symbolic ; perhaps it is more accurate to speak of images as ...
... symbolic Obviously , the three kinds of imagery I have discussed — literal , figurative and symbolic — are not mutually exclusive . The movement in poetry is always toward the symbolic ; perhaps it is more accurate to speak of images as ...
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... symbolic content of ribbons . Bobolinks simply sym- bolize dawn — with all that that symbolizes . Contrast the symbolic force of amethyst ( gem - like lucidity , pale , fairy radiance ) with that of purple ( a thicker , more somber ...
... symbolic content of ribbons . Bobolinks simply sym- bolize dawn — with all that that symbolizes . Contrast the symbolic force of amethyst ( gem - like lucidity , pale , fairy radiance ) with that of purple ( a thicker , more somber ...
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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