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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... sound , which story or records would not do ? Why emphasize the slowness and sleepiness of man and horse in stanza one ; the thin smoke without flame in stanza two ? You miss the force of the poem if you do not see the strong ironic con ...
... sound , which story or records would not do ? Why emphasize the slowness and sleepiness of man and horse in stanza one ; the thin smoke without flame in stanza two ? You miss the force of the poem if you do not see the strong ironic con ...
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... sound is repeated for emphasis , and since the parts of the line where they occur are separated by the caesura , this repetition helps to give a kind of unity in sound to each separate half . The sounds are open and clear in keeping ...
... sound is repeated for emphasis , and since the parts of the line where they occur are separated by the caesura , this repetition helps to give a kind of unity in sound to each separate half . The sounds are open and clear in keeping ...
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... sound . The it - combination in glittering is a good example . There is no possibility of easy flowing over into the next syllable . Com- pare the vowel sounds , for resonance , with those in Milton's Piedmont sonnet and in Wotton's ...
... sound . The it - combination in glittering is a good example . There is no possibility of easy flowing over into the next syllable . Com- pare the vowel sounds , for resonance , with those in Milton's Piedmont sonnet and in Wotton's ...
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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