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... mind to it , and let it work up within you a set of complex feelings , which may approximate my own . " In Emily Dickinson's “ There's a Certain Slant of Light " the poet refuses to say simply " I'm suffering from despair , " not ...
... mind to it , and let it work up within you a set of complex feelings , which may approximate my own . " In Emily Dickinson's “ There's a Certain Slant of Light " the poet refuses to say simply " I'm suffering from despair , " not ...
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... mind that in some degree we have all experienced . If language is any indication , man is a very shy and evasive animal . Never at a loss to name the phenomena of his outer world , he stammers shamefacedly when forced to talk about ...
... mind that in some degree we have all experienced . If language is any indication , man is a very shy and evasive animal . Never at a loss to name the phenomena of his outer world , he stammers shamefacedly when forced to talk about ...
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... mind drift off to a low level of consciousness . If the mind expects a pleasant doze during a reading of Don Juan , it is tickled awake by such unusual three - syllable rhymes as " paragon " - " Aragon " - " war again , " and is snapped ...
... mind drift off to a low level of consciousness . If the mind expects a pleasant doze during a reading of Don Juan , it is tickled awake by such unusual three - syllable rhymes as " paragon " - " Aragon " - " war again , " and is snapped ...
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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