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... hear the far - off curfew sound , Over some wide - watered shore , Swinging slow with sullen roar . I Both A and B are written in iambic tetrameters but their rhythmic effect is very different . In A the stressed syllables are sharp and ...
... hear the far - off curfew sound , Over some wide - watered shore , Swinging slow with sullen roar . I Both A and B are written in iambic tetrameters but their rhythmic effect is very different . In A the stressed syllables are sharp and ...
Page 118
... hear ! how thin and clear , And thinner , clearer , farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow , let us hear the purple glens replying : Blow , bugle ; answer , echoes , dying , dying ...
... hear ! how thin and clear , And thinner , clearer , farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow , let us hear the purple glens replying : Blow , bugle ; answer , echoes , dying , dying ...
Page 139
... Hear how learn'd Greece her useful rules indites , When to repress , and when indulge our flights . You then whose judgement the right course would steer , Know well each ANCIENT's proper character . In these lines Pope advances two of ...
... Hear how learn'd Greece her useful rules indites , When to repress , and when indulge our flights . You then whose judgement the right course would steer , Know well each ANCIENT's proper character . In these lines Pope advances two of ...
Contents
MEANING AND INTENTION II | 11 |
FINAL JUDGEMENT | 120 |
A PIECE OF CRITICISM | 132 |
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A. E. Housman accent adjectives appeal beauty blank verse blow Bonny Dundee brave CHAPTER clear Coleridge colour couplet Danny Deever dark death delight detail diction doth duple Echoing Green emotions English example expression eyes final judgement flowers following passages free verse give green hand hath heart heaven iambic pentameters imagery images imagination judge Keats leaves light look Lyrical melody metre metrical Milton mind modern moon mountains nature neo-Classical never night o'er Paradise Lost pattern Petrarcan pleasure poem poet poet's attitude poet's purpose prosody reader rest rhythmic rime-scheme rimes Romantics round scansion sense sestet Shakespeare Shakespearian silver sing skies song sonnet soul sound Spring sprung rhythm stanzas statement stress style sweet syllables system of scansion T. S. Eliot thee theme things thou thought truth versification whole wind Winter's Tale words Wordsworth writing دو