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... associations— pleasant or otherwise , and of differing degrees of intensity— which it has for the individual reader ; the tongue halts at a phrase , or stumbles over a line ; a colour adjective appeals or repels according to the ...
... associations— pleasant or otherwise , and of differing degrees of intensity— which it has for the individual reader ; the tongue halts at a phrase , or stumbles over a line ; a colour adjective appeals or repels according to the ...
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... associations . When Shakespeare wished to convey a sense of the rich profusion and daring of the Spring , he coined the phrase , proud - pied April " . Here , the meaning of the compound epithet is exact , but more important , its ...
... associations . When Shakespeare wished to convey a sense of the rich profusion and daring of the Spring , he coined the phrase , proud - pied April " . Here , the meaning of the compound epithet is exact , but more important , its ...
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... associations in the mind of the reader . ( a ) A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring - time from the cuckoo - bird , Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides . Will no one tell me what she sings ? Perhaps 87 ...
... associations in the mind of the reader . ( a ) A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring - time from the cuckoo - bird , Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides . Will no one tell me what she sings ? Perhaps 87 ...
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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