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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... ( notice especially the opening phrase of the third line ) , and what more satisfying things are to be found in Byzantium . ( Notice what the " holy sages " of the third stanza are summoned to do , and the opening lines of the fourth ...
... ( notice especially the opening phrase of the third line ) , and what more satisfying things are to be found in Byzantium . ( Notice what the " holy sages " of the third stanza are summoned to do , and the opening lines of the fourth ...
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... Notice its repetition in line 26. What other words support it ? On " Nightingales " Distinguish those sections which represent the words of the poet from those which contain the answers of the birds . How is the situation of the poet ...
... Notice its repetition in line 26. What other words support it ? On " Nightingales " Distinguish those sections which represent the words of the poet from those which contain the answers of the birds . How is the situation of the poet ...
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... Notice how light the unstressed syllables are , and the difference in caesuras for lines 1 and 2 as compared with 3 , which has only four stresses , unless by straining we put one on this . For me that would seem to damage seriously the ...
... Notice how light the unstressed syllables are , and the difference in caesuras for lines 1 and 2 as compared with 3 , which has only four stresses , unless by straining we put one on this . For me that would seem to damage seriously the ...
Contents
OUTLINE FOR A DEFENSE | 1 |
LIONS IN THE PATH | 23 |
THE READING AND THE READINGS OF THE POEM | 39 |
Copyright | |
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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON ANDREW MARVELL ballad beauty beginning bird breath caesuras contrast conventional dark dead death detail Don John doth dream earth effect emotion English experience eyes fairy fear feeling garden hand hath heard heart heaven human idea imagery imagination John Donne JOHN KEATS John of Austria Keats kind King lady light lines live look meaning Milton mind Miss mood moon mother never night nightingale o'er once pattern phrase pleasure poem poet poet's prayer prose reader reading poetry rest rhythm rime rose seems Shakespeare ship sing Sir Patrick Spens sleep song sonnet soul sound spirit stars story stress Suggestions sweet syllables tears thee thine things Thomas Rymer thou thought Three Ravens tree turn verse voice WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind words