The Groundwork of Criticism: Judging PoetryOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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... ROBERT BURNS 2. My heart aches , and a drowsy numbness pains My sense , as though of hemlock I had drunk , Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past , and Lethe - wards had sunk : " Tis not through envy of thy happy lot ...
... ROBERT BURNS 2. My heart aches , and a drowsy numbness pains My sense , as though of hemlock I had drunk , Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past , and Lethe - wards had sunk : " Tis not through envy of thy happy lot ...
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... Robert Burns's Highland Mary is a poignant expression of Burns's true love for one of his sweethearts , which also happens to express a passion common to men , Ben Jonson's famous song Drink to me only with thine eyes expresses merely a ...
... Robert Burns's Highland Mary is a poignant expression of Burns's true love for one of his sweethearts , which also happens to express a passion common to men , Ben Jonson's famous song Drink to me only with thine eyes expresses merely a ...
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... angel stand ; And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command . From The Cottar's Saturday Night , by ROBERT BURNS I grey side - locks 4841 Ꭰ 2 chooses The lads an ' lasses , blythely bent To mind INFLUENCES 49.
... angel stand ; And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command . From The Cottar's Saturday Night , by ROBERT BURNS I grey side - locks 4841 Ꭰ 2 chooses The lads an ' lasses , blythely bent To mind INFLUENCES 49.
Contents
WHAT IS POETRY? EXERCISES | 7 |
KINDS OF POETRY | 19 |
INFLUENCES IV WORDS V IMAGERY EXERCISES VI SWING EXERCISES 7 19 | 37 |
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ALEXANDER POPE alley anapaests bear beauty breath Cheddar Pinks conceit dactyl daffodils dance dark darling dead death doth dreams dying earth echoes Elegy emotive example expression eyes Faerie Queene fancy feel feet figurative language flowers following passage following poem foot Hamlet hath hear heart heaven human iambic idea imagery images inverted stress LAURENCE BINYON light lines lives LORD TENNYSON Lycidas lyric maid MATTHEW ARNOLD metaphor metre mind moon narrative poems nature ne'er o'er pale phrase plays poet poet's poetry questions printed Read carefully rhyme rhythm ROBERT ROBERT BURNS round Sally satiric scene sense Shakespeare's sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speech spirit spondee stanza stars STEPHEN SPENDER stressed syllable strong stress suggests sweet T. S. Eliot thee theme thine things thou thought trochees unstressed verse W. B. Yeats Wilfred Owen WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind words