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... reader ; the tongue halts at a phrase , or stumbles over a line ; a colour adjective appeals or repels according to the reader's own taste ; and so on . By the time the first reading is complete , these transitory , and often half ...
... reader ; the tongue halts at a phrase , or stumbles over a line ; a colour adjective appeals or repels according to the reader's own taste ; and so on . By the time the first reading is complete , these transitory , and often half ...
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... reader must decide the point for himself . ) The hasty reader will commit one of two faults when criticising this poem . Either he will allow his enjoyment of the earlier part to blind him to the bathetic ending ; or , worse fault still ...
... reader must decide the point for himself . ) The hasty reader will commit one of two faults when criticising this poem . Either he will allow his enjoyment of the earlier part to blind him to the bathetic ending ; or , worse fault still ...
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... reader thoughts and emotions as nearly as possible identical with those that filled the poet's mind as he wrote . They are the symbols of things and ideas , and the reader understands the mind of the poet , only by allowing those ...
... reader thoughts and emotions as nearly as possible identical with those that filled the poet's mind as he wrote . They are the symbols of things and ideas , and the reader understands the mind of the poet , only by allowing those ...
Contents
Meaning and intention II | 11 |
Versification | 33 |
Diction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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accent appeal Basil Bunting beauty blow break Chapter Charles Causley Coleridge Collected Poems colour counterpointing couplet Danny Deever dark dead death detail diction doth duple echoes Eliot emotions English poetry example express eyes Faber Ltd final judgement flowers following passages GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS give grave hath heart heaven iambic pentameters imagery images imagination jolly Keats leaves light lines live look melody metre metrical Milton mind modern moon nature never night o'er Paradise pattern Petrarchan pleasure poet poet's attitude poet's purpose poetic R. S. Thomas reader reading rhyme-scheme rhymes rhythmic round scansion sense sestet Shakespeare Shakespearian silver sing skies snow song sonnet soul sound Spring sprung rhythm stanza statement stress style sweet syllables T. S. Eliot Ted Hughes thee theme things thou thought verse versification W. H. Auden whole Wilfred Owen wind words Wordsworth writing