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... Ulysses ; and ( 3 ) introduces eleven lines of “ change - of- pace , " comparatively low - keyed verse , before he climaxes the poem with the hero's apostrophe to his mariners . The structure is thus determined by apostrophe . Yet the ...
... Ulysses ; and ( 3 ) introduces eleven lines of “ change - of- pace , " comparatively low - keyed verse , before he climaxes the poem with the hero's apostrophe to his mariners . The structure is thus determined by apostrophe . Yet the ...
Page 79
... Ulysses an instrument used by the gods or life or his na- tion ? Hardly . He , Ulysses , is apparently the user of himself . Pure will is urging into action a tired , aging , and presumably reluctant body . In contemporary , unheroic ...
... Ulysses an instrument used by the gods or life or his na- tion ? Hardly . He , Ulysses , is apparently the user of himself . Pure will is urging into action a tired , aging , and presumably reluctant body . In contemporary , unheroic ...
Page 81
... Ulysses makes to his mariners in the last section . “ There lies the port . . ./ There gloom the dark , broad seas , " " The thunder and the sunshine , ” “ It may be that the gulfs will wash us down ; / It may be we shall touch the ...
... Ulysses makes to his mariners in the last section . “ There lies the port . . ./ There gloom the dark , broad seas , " " The thunder and the sunshine , ” “ It may be that the gulfs will wash us down ; / It may be we shall touch the ...
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A. E. Housman accents beauty bird blood breast breath bright child cloud cold context Copyright dark dead death doth dream E. E. Cummings earth example eyes father fear feel feet flowers foot Gerard Manley Hopkins hair hands hath hear heard heart heaven human iamb iambic pentameter Karl Shapiro language leaves light live look loud man's meaning metaphor meter mind moon morning mother move never night o'er object person POEMS FOR COMPARISON poet poet's poetic poetry rain reader rhyme rhythm Richard Cory Richard Wilbur Robert Frost sails sense sestet ship sigh silent sing slant rhyme sleep song sonnet soul sound spirit stanza star strange sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot thee things thou thought trees trochee Ulysses verbal verse voice W. H. Auden walk Wallace Stevens wind words youth