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Page 61
... sense , rime and rhythm . But as they left the dark'ning heath , More desperate grew the strife of death . The English shafts in vollies hail'd , In headlong charge their horse assail'd ; Front , flank and rear , the squadrons sweep ...
... sense , rime and rhythm . But as they left the dark'ning heath , More desperate grew the strife of death . The English shafts in vollies hail'd , In headlong charge their horse assail'd ; Front , flank and rear , the squadrons sweep ...
Page 78
... sense and on the imagination . In using dim- discovered " to describe " spires " , the poet was relying on sense perceptions stored in the memory of his readers . Note how an almost physical sense of gazing through rain across an often ...
... sense and on the imagination . In using dim- discovered " to describe " spires " , the poet was relying on sense perceptions stored in the memory of his readers . Note how an almost physical sense of gazing through rain across an often ...
Page 97
... senses through words . Through the senses the emotions and intellect of the reader can be swiftly stirred ... sense of the word , but which , nevertheless , is emotionally and intellectually powerful , working through directly ...
... senses through words . Through the senses the emotions and intellect of the reader can be swiftly stirred ... sense of the word , but which , nevertheless , is emotionally and intellectually powerful , working through directly ...
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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