The Groundwork of Criticism: Judging PoetryOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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... earth is sustained in the first two lines . In the third line there is a change of figure . The earth is compared no longer with a person , but with a place . In the fifth there is a return to the original figure , the notion of the ...
... earth is sustained in the first two lines . In the third line there is a change of figure . The earth is compared no longer with a person , but with a place . In the fifth there is a return to the original figure , the notion of the ...
Page 155
... earth . Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so , for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground ? Our lands , our lives and all are Bolingbroke's , And nothing can we call our own but death , And that ...
... earth . Let's choose executors and talk of wills : And yet not so , for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground ? Our lands , our lives and all are Bolingbroke's , And nothing can we call our own but death , And that ...
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... earth , and fill ( Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air ) With living hues and odours plain and hill : Wild Spirit , which art moving everywhere ; Destroyer and Preserver ; hear , oh , hear ! 2. Thou on whose stream , mid the ...
... earth , and fill ( Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air ) With living hues and odours plain and hill : Wild Spirit , which art moving everywhere ; Destroyer and Preserver ; hear , oh , hear ! 2. Thou on whose stream , mid the ...
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Groundwork of Criticism Judging Poetry (Classic Reprint) Stanley C. Glassey No preview available - 2018 |
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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