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... emotions or attitudes to life , may or may not be universal in its 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 ...
... emotions or attitudes to life , may or may not be universal in its 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 ...
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... emotions and motives that the poet , and I , and every man have in common ? Are the emotions expressed valuable and com- pelling , or are they artificial and in excess of the stimulus ? Does this poem touch the whole of my life , or ...
... emotions and motives that the poet , and I , and every man have in common ? Are the emotions expressed valuable and com- pelling , or are they artificial and in excess of the stimulus ? Does this poem touch the whole of my life , or ...
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... emotion ; before a new word can be added , the poet must ask himself , not merely , is this the right word for the ... emotions . Especially is this true of lyric poetry where every line must count and not a word be used which is not ...
... emotion ; before a new word can be added , the poet must ask himself , not merely , is this the right word for the ... emotions . Especially is this true of lyric poetry where every line must count and not a word be used which is not ...
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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