The Groundwork of Criticism: Judging PoetryOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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... meaning for us , though as yet only a vague meaning , in association with the preceding and following passages and with the spirit and content of the whole poem . Now let us consider , by way of contrast , a stanza from a poem that ...
... meaning for us , though as yet only a vague meaning , in association with the preceding and following passages and with the spirit and content of the whole poem . Now let us consider , by way of contrast , a stanza from a poem that ...
Page 68
... meaning , in the general sense of that word , its musical quality , or its power of evok- ing a scene or a smell , or stimulating any other sense . Various aspects of sense merge so completely into the unity of the word that isolation ...
... meaning , in the general sense of that word , its musical quality , or its power of evok- ing a scene or a smell , or stimulating any other sense . Various aspects of sense merge so completely into the unity of the word that isolation ...
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... meaning have but in the lids ' fall and rise . I have seen terror leap Up from the spirit's unfathomable deep , Through unfixed eyeballs stare , Then shuddering sink back and lie snake - like there . I have seen honour look Swift under ...
... meaning have but in the lids ' fall and rise . I have seen terror leap Up from the spirit's unfathomable deep , Through unfixed eyeballs stare , Then shuddering sink back and lie snake - like there . I have seen honour look Swift under ...
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