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... appeal , depending entirely on whether the poet has succeeded in achieving that vivid generaliza- tion of ideas and emotions ( and expressing this in imperish- able language ) which ensures an appeal to imaginative readers in any age ...
... appeal , depending entirely on whether the poet has succeeded in achieving that vivid generaliza- tion of ideas and emotions ( and expressing this in imperish- able language ) which ensures an appeal to imaginative readers in any age ...
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... appeal so strongly to the imagination , and in judging the artistic merit of the diction of a poem , the critic should look carefully at every adjective and verb employed . Here are a few general observations to help you in this part of ...
... appeal so strongly to the imagination , and in judging the artistic merit of the diction of a poem , the critic should look carefully at every adjective and verb employed . Here are a few general observations to help you in this part of ...
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... appeal is backed by an emotional association which sustains and enriches the theme . Concreteness and economy are the distinguishing marks of good imagery . Describing the mute sufferings of un- requited love , Viola in “ Twelfth Night ...
... appeal is backed by an emotional association which sustains and enriches the theme . Concreteness and economy are the distinguishing marks of good imagery . Describing the mute sufferings of un- requited love , Viola in “ Twelfth Night ...
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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 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 Johnson judge Keats 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 restricted poetry 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 write