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... poem , is to read the poem again , and again . While these first readings are taking place , the mind should as far as possible be kept open ; not , be it noted , empty , but open to the influence of the poet . The critic should be on ...
... poem , is to read the poem again , and again . While these first readings are taking place , the mind should as far as possible be kept open ; not , be it noted , empty , but open to the influence of the poet . The critic should be on ...
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... Poem A is more intensely personal than poem B — and as such might be less interesting were it not so universalized that in speaking for himself , Wordsworth speaks to us all -yet it is a far more valuable experience to read the former ...
... Poem A is more intensely personal than poem B — and as such might be less interesting were it not so universalized that in speaking for himself , Wordsworth speaks to us all -yet it is a far more valuable experience to read the former ...
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... poem . We have by that time explored thoroughly the meaning of the poem and the kind of theme with which it deals , and the literary qualities of the way in which it is expressed ( versification , prosody , diction , and imagery ) and ...
... poem . We have by that time explored thoroughly the meaning of the poem and the kind of theme with which it deals , and the literary qualities of the way in which it is expressed ( versification , prosody , diction , and imagery ) and ...
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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