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... detail , or details , that they have been struck by in a first reading . A judgement that rests itself on an instinctive or emotional response to a detail is a prejudice and not a true judgement at all . Sound judge- ment can never ...
... detail , or details , that they have been struck by in a first reading . A judgement that rests itself on an instinctive or emotional response to a detail is a prejudice and not a true judgement at all . Sound judge- ment can never ...
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... detail with just as much , and just as little emphasis , as a mere detail deserves . Let us take an example of this process . Near Martinpuisch that night of hell Two men were struck by the same shell , Together tumbling in one heap ...
... detail with just as much , and just as little emphasis , as a mere detail deserves . Let us take an example of this process . Near Martinpuisch that night of hell Two men were struck by the same shell , Together tumbling in one heap ...
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... detail ; the imagination is then called upon to do the rest through the associated ideas which the detail arouses . Consideration of the examples that we have already given will by now have begun to make clear the functions of imagery ...
... detail ; the imagination is then called upon to do the rest through the associated ideas which the detail arouses . Consideration of the examples that we have already given will by now have begun to make clear the functions of imagery ...
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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