The Groundwork of Criticism: Judging PoetryOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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Page 47
... soul : and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky , Not light us here , so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent , not to assure our doubtful way , But guide us upward to a better day . And as those nightly tapers disappear When ...
... soul : and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky , Not light us here , so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent , not to assure our doubtful way , But guide us upward to a better day . And as those nightly tapers disappear When ...
Page 160
... soul ? 5. What common inspiration or generating motive had they ? 6. Compare and contrast the passages with regard to their blank verse style . 7. What is the most dreadful single thing Lear says ? 8. Lear says one thing four times . Is ...
... soul ? 5. What common inspiration or generating motive had they ? 6. Compare and contrast the passages with regard to their blank verse style . 7. What is the most dreadful single thing Lear says ? 8. Lear says one thing four times . Is ...
Page 169
... soul to soul , And grow for ever and for ever . Blow , bugle , blow , set the wild echoes flying , And answer , echoes , answer dying , dying , dying . LORD TENNYSON 3 . Tears , idle tears , I know not TRYING IT OUT 169.
... soul to soul , And grow for ever and for ever . Blow , bugle , blow , set the wild echoes flying , And answer , echoes , answer dying , dying , dying . LORD TENNYSON 3 . Tears , idle tears , I know not TRYING IT OUT 169.
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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