Elements of Poetry

A. E. Housman alliteration ambiguity Amy Lowell anapestic antistrophe aware ballad basic beauty becomes caesura CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ comparison consonants couplet CRUZ The University dead death denotative earth effect elements emotion emphasize epic evokes example experience eyes Faerie Queene feelings feet figure following lines foot grief heaven iamb iambic ideas illustrate imagery intensity irony Keats lady light lover lyric MacLeish meaning ment metaphor meter metonymy metrical metrical variation Milton mood moon movement night onomatopoeia paradox passage personification poet poet's poetry prose reader of poetry reading realize receding wave reinforces repetition response result rhythm rose second stanza sense sensory Shakespeare simile sonnet soul speech spondee stanza statement story stressed sounds suggests sweet syllable symbol synecdoche T. S. Eliot thě thee things thou thought tion trochee University Library UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA unstressed verse vowel W. B. Yeats whole words writing