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... beginning stanzas move more quickly and complexly than may at once be apparent . First we have the black ravens conversing , with that grisly understatement of a question about " breakfast . " Then we stop looking at them , but through ...
... beginning stanzas move more quickly and complexly than may at once be apparent . First we have the black ravens conversing , with that grisly understatement of a question about " breakfast . " Then we stop looking at them , but through ...
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... beginnings and endings . What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning . To perceive the unbroken circle of consequences , -looking in either direction , back into the past or forward into the ...
... beginnings and endings . What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning . To perceive the unbroken circle of consequences , -looking in either direction , back into the past or forward into the ...
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... beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning . The end is where we start from . And every phrase And sentence that is right ( where every word is at home , Taking its place to support the others , The word ...
... beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning . The end is where we start from . And every phrase And sentence that is right ( where every word is at home , Taking its place to support the others , The word ...
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A. E. Housman beauty bird breath bright Collected Poems Danny Deever dark dead death doth dream earth effect EMILY DICKINSON emotional eternal eyes Ezra Pound fair fear feeling fire flowers ghost green hair HAMLET hand hath hear heard heart heaven HORATIO human imagery images John light lines live look Lord lovers Marianne Moore meaning mind moon nature never night o'er passage POEMS FOR READING poet poet's poetic poetry rain READING AND ANALYSIS rhymes rhythm rose round sense silent sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker spirit spring stanza stars suggest sweet syllable symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee things thou thought tone trees truth verse voice W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden Wallace Stevens waves WILLIAM WILLIAM BLAKE William Carlos Williams WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind words