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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... contrast , implied contrast , ironic contrast . Irony arises in the difference between what a reader might normally expect and what he actually gets ; here between the comfort , domesticity , relaxation which ought to ac- company a well ...
... contrast , implied contrast , ironic contrast . Irony arises in the difference between what a reader might normally expect and what he actually gets ; here between the comfort , domesticity , relaxation which ought to ac- company a well ...
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... contrast ; in the other , the desertion of the murdered warrior and the utter faithlessness of those about him is dramatized by the same foreboding contrast . Here , it seems to me , the effect is even more powerful , so that we almost ...
... contrast ; in the other , the desertion of the murdered warrior and the utter faithlessness of those about him is dramatized by the same foreboding contrast . Here , it seems to me , the effect is even more powerful , so that we almost ...
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... Contrast and suggestion have much to do with it . Contrast is implied , for example , in the atmosphere of the king's castle which is set over against the busy scene on shipboard as the " mirry men " make ready for sailing ; in the ...
... Contrast and suggestion have much to do with it . Contrast is implied , for example , in the atmosphere of the king's castle which is set over against the busy scene on shipboard as the " mirry men " make ready for sailing ; in the ...
Contents
OUTLINE FOR A DEFENSE | 1 |
LIONS IN THE PATH | 23 |
THE READING AND THE READINGS OF THE POEM | 39 |
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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