The Groundwork of Criticism: Judging PoetryOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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... human characters and shows them in action . But the main purpose appears to be not to tell a story but to kill folly by ridicule . Futility , the futility of life and human institutions is a dominant note in much modern poetry ...
... human characters and shows them in action . But the main purpose appears to be not to tell a story but to kill folly by ridicule . Futility , the futility of life and human institutions is a dominant note in much modern poetry ...
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... human squander rucked thick , the leering teeth , and the set - smiling corpses , but the passages showing insight into the worst tragedy of the war's wreckage . " These are men the Dead have ravished ' , that is , forcibly deprived of ...
... human squander rucked thick , the leering teeth , and the set - smiling corpses , but the passages showing insight into the worst tragedy of the war's wreckage . " These are men the Dead have ravished ' , that is , forcibly deprived of ...
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... human sentiments . The metre is jog - trot , well adapted to the language , sentiment , and everyday associations of the poem . 3. Tennyson's poem is , in general , an invitation to a maid to descend , from the ' cold mountain tops ' of ...
... human sentiments . The metre is jog - trot , well adapted to the language , sentiment , and everyday associations of the poem . 3. Tennyson's poem is , in general , an invitation to a maid to descend , from the ' cold mountain tops ' of ...
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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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