How Does a Poem Mean?Houghton Mifflin, 1960 - 366 páginas Examines the value and nature of poetry, using examples of English and American poetry of the past 6 centuries. |
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... foot consisting of unstressed - stressed- unstressed syllables : ta - tum - ta , as in the word re - but - tal . The amphibrach may be thought of as a feminine iamb . ( See below for the terms feminine and masculine . ) The pyrrhic is a ...
... foot consisting of unstressed - stressed- unstressed syllables : ta - tum - ta , as in the word re - but - tal . The amphibrach may be thought of as a feminine iamb . ( See below for the terms feminine and masculine . ) The pyrrhic is a ...
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... foot lad . By brooks too broad for leaping The light - foot lads are laid . And rose - lipt girls are sleeping In fields where roses fade . The very monosyllabic understatement of the poem is important to its lyrical restraint and ...
... foot lad . By brooks too broad for leaping The light - foot lads are laid . And rose - lipt girls are sleeping In fields where roses fade . The very monosyllabic understatement of the poem is important to its lyrical restraint and ...
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... foot is , accordingly , a trochee rather than a pyrrhic . It is the second line of this stanza , however , that ... foot occurs , an unaccented syllable that would ac- company the accent in a mechanical scansion may be displaced to the ...
... foot is , accordingly , a trochee rather than a pyrrhic . It is the second line of this stanza , however , that ... foot occurs , an unaccented syllable that would ac- company the accent in a mechanical scansion may be displaced to the ...
Contenido
CHAPTER ONE HOW DOES A POEM MEAN? | 665 |
CHAPTER TWO A BURBLE | 678 |
FOLK BALLADS | 685 |
Derechos de autor | |
Otras 19 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
adjectives Albatross anapestic Archibald MacLeish ballad beauty bird boomlay breast breath Burns caesura catalogue certainly Childe Maurice connotations Copyright dark dead death denotation diction doth dream English example eyes fact fair feel flowers foot fulcrum Hamish hand hath heart heaven iambic images Jabberwocky John Donne Karl Shapiro Keats Kenneth Rexroth language light live look Lord Mariner metaphor metrics monosyllabic moon motion move never night Note o'er passage pause phrase play POEM MEAN poet poetic poetry QUESTIONS reader Reprinted by permission rhyme Robert Frost rose round sails scansion seems sense ship silence sing Sir Patrick Spens sleep smile song sort soul sound Squid stanza statement stressed suggestion sweet symbol tell tends thee thing thou thought tone unstressed syllables voice W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden William William Butler Yeats William Carlos Williams wind words