The Groundwork of Criticism: Judging PoetryOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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Page 119
... short time to stay , as you , We have as short a Spring . That idea induces a mood of sadness . You haste away so soon : we weep to see Finally , the poet in the last lines implies that , as with the daffodils , so with human beings ...
... short time to stay , as you , We have as short a Spring . That idea induces a mood of sadness . You haste away so soon : we weep to see Finally , the poet in the last lines implies that , as with the daffodils , so with human beings ...
Page 121
... Short time — as short a spring . Quick a growth to meet decay . We die and dry away . Ne'er to be found again . The ideas of haste and transience are further reinforced by the alternation of short and very short lines . 2. In ...
... Short time — as short a spring . Quick a growth to meet decay . We die and dry away . Ne'er to be found again . The ideas of haste and transience are further reinforced by the alternation of short and very short lines . 2. In ...
Page 167
... short square fingers stuffing pipes , And evening newspapers , and eyes Assured of certain certainties , The conscience of a blackened street Impatient to assume the world . I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images ...
... short square fingers stuffing pipes , And evening newspapers , and eyes Assured of certain certainties , The conscience of a blackened street Impatient to assume the world . I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images ...
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