The Art of Reading PoetryFarrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1941 - 519 pages I do not believe that poetry is mysterious or esoteric. It is for all who can read, who can call words, who have rhythm enough, by nature, so that a jazz orchestra sets feet and hands in motion. Likewise, this invitation is to all. But it is, especially, invitation to those regretfully convinced that poetry is not for them, and to those who think they prefer the unequivocating directness of prose. It is invitation to labor, and after labor, entrance upon pleasure "not to be chang'd by place or time," the peculiar pleasure which poetry is. - Invitation to reading. |
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... seems to call for something more important , more appar- ently valuable than tears . Possibly , in connection with the holding off of the word teares until the second line , the poet is deliberately work- ing for an implied contrast ...
... seems to call for something more important , more appar- ently valuable than tears . Possibly , in connection with the holding off of the word teares until the second line , the poet is deliberately work- ing for an implied contrast ...
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... seems forbidden by crowns ; a wreath as crown ought to be a symbol of victory and triumph , like the prize awarded the winner in the Greek athletic games . With such a symbol , we are close to the poet's central idea of love as victory ...
... seems forbidden by crowns ; a wreath as crown ought to be a symbol of victory and triumph , like the prize awarded the winner in the Greek athletic games . With such a symbol , we are close to the poet's central idea of love as victory ...
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... seems to be part of what the poem is meant to mean . Its richness is a richness of implications . The obvious things about it might be put like this . Stanza i is a picture of fashionable eighteenth - century women leaning from their ...
... seems to be part of what the poem is meant to mean . Its richness is a richness of implications . The obvious things about it might be put like this . Stanza i is a picture of fashionable eighteenth - century women leaning from their ...
Contents
OUTLINE FOR A DEFENSE | 1 |
LIONS IN THE PATH | 23 |
THE READING AND THE READINGS OF THE POEM | 39 |
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