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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... writing ( active writing ) will almost invariably have more verbs . There seems always to be some difference of opinion on the adjective count . Should " quartered " ( line 11 ) , for example , be argued as an ad- jective ( " a ...
... writing ( active writing ) will almost invariably have more verbs . There seems always to be some difference of opinion on the adjective count . Should " quartered " ( line 11 ) , for example , be argued as an ad- jective ( " a ...
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... writing tends to present evidence rather than judgments . When the evidence is well presented , the reader's judgments will agree with those implicit in the writing . But nothing is more disastrous to the com- munication between writer ...
... writing tends to present evidence rather than judgments . When the evidence is well presented , the reader's judgments will agree with those implicit in the writing . But nothing is more disastrous to the com- munication between writer ...
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... writing those opening asser- tions or closing summaries are omitted , or not so much omitted as left implicit . In all good writing there still tends to be present a relation of assertion ( or summary ) to evidence . In each of these ...
... writing those opening asser- tions or closing summaries are omitted , or not so much omitted as left implicit . In all good writing there still tends to be present a relation of assertion ( or summary ) to evidence . In each of these ...
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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