The Groundwork of Criticism: Judging PoetryOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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... theme , pervading the whole , some forms of poetry seem particularly dependent for their full effect upon such unity . Unity of idea is an essential characteristic of a good sonnet . Sometimes the theme may be expressed in general terms ...
... theme , pervading the whole , some forms of poetry seem particularly dependent for their full effect upon such unity . Unity of idea is an essential characteristic of a good sonnet . Sometimes the theme may be expressed in general terms ...
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... theme of Shakespeare's sonnet is the idea that true love is unchanged by time or circumstance . In the first quatrain he states the theme . In the second he expresses metaphorically the idea con- tained 132 TRYING IT OUT.
... theme of Shakespeare's sonnet is the idea that true love is unchanged by time or circumstance . In the first quatrain he states the theme . In the second he expresses metaphorically the idea con- tained 132 TRYING IT OUT.
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... theme is developed . 3. Explain the significance for the poem of the phrases ' four and five and six o'clock ' , ' short square fingers ' , ' evening newspapers ' , ' certain certainties ' . 4. Later on in the poem there is a feeling of ...
... theme is developed . 3. Explain the significance for the poem of the phrases ' four and five and six o'clock ' , ' short square fingers ' , ' evening newspapers ' , ' certain certainties ' . 4. Later on in the poem there is a feeling 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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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