The Groundwork of Criticism: Judging PoetryOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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... star . Are limbs , so dear - achieved , are sides , Full - nerved - still warm - too hard to stir ? Was it for this the clay grew tall ? -O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all ? 8 . Sunset and evening star , 9 ...
... star . Are limbs , so dear - achieved , are sides , Full - nerved - still warm - too hard to stir ? Was it for this the clay grew tall ? -O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all ? 8 . Sunset and evening star , 9 ...
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... stars From this world - wearied flesh . [ as he swallows poison ] Come , bitter conduct , come , unsavoury guide ! Thou desperate pilot , now at once run on The dashing rocks thy sea - sick weary bark . Here's to my love . In this ...
... stars From this world - wearied flesh . [ as he swallows poison ] Come , bitter conduct , come , unsavoury guide ! Thou desperate pilot , now at once run on The dashing rocks thy sea - sick weary bark . Here's to my love . In this ...
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... Star that guides the mariner . Many will find the metaphor in lines 7-8 most telling if left unexplained , suggesting the limitless power of true love . Broadly speaking , it may mean that just as the influence of the stars in the ...
... Star that guides the mariner . Many will find the metaphor in lines 7-8 most telling if left unexplained , suggesting the limitless power of true love . Broadly speaking , it may mean that just as the influence of the stars in the ...
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