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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... light . Swiftly , swiftly flew the ship , Yet she sailed softly too : Sweetly , sweetly blew the breeze- On me alone it blew . Oh ! dream of joy ! is this indeed The light - house top I see ? Is this the hill ? is this the kirk ? Is ...
... light . Swiftly , swiftly flew the ship , Yet she sailed softly too : Sweetly , sweetly blew the breeze- On me alone it blew . Oh ! dream of joy ! is this indeed The light - house top I see ? Is this the hill ? is this the kirk ? Is ...
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... light ? He wrote instead : Spenserian vowels that elope with ease . And what a magnificent choice " elope " is in this context ! " Divinely lilt " could not be objected to . Nor could " delicate and light . " But nothing distinguishes ...
... light ? He wrote instead : Spenserian vowels that elope with ease . And what a magnificent choice " elope " is in this context ! " Divinely lilt " could not be objected to . Nor could " delicate and light . " But nothing distinguishes ...
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... Light Brigade ! Charge for the gun ! " he said . Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred . " Forward , the Light Brigade ! " Was there a man dismayed ? Not though the soldier knew Someone had blundered . Theirs not to make reply ...
... Light Brigade ! Charge for the gun ! " he said . Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred . " Forward , the Light Brigade ! " Was there a man dismayed ? Not though the soldier knew Someone had blundered . Theirs not to make reply ...
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CHAPTER ONE HOW DOES A POEM MEAN? | 665 |
CHAPTER TWO A BURBLE | 678 |
FOLK BALLADS | 685 |
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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