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... true a pal . " ( ROBERT GRAVES : " The Leveller " ' ) This poem was set as practical work to a form which was asked to write a general statement of the theme . Many of the pupils made the same mistake in dealing with the question ...
... true a pal . " ( ROBERT GRAVES : " The Leveller " ' ) This poem was set as practical work to a form which was asked to write a general statement of the theme . Many of the pupils made the same mistake in dealing with the question ...
Page 13
... true understanding unless he brings these two qualities of sym- pathy and imagination to his task . The words of a poem are the means whereby a poet seeks to arouse in the reader thoughts and emotions as nearly as possible identical ...
... true understanding unless he brings these two qualities of sym- pathy and imagination to his task . The words of a poem are the means whereby a poet seeks to arouse in the reader thoughts and emotions as nearly as possible identical ...
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... true that the full appreciation of good style needs a developed judgement and wide reading -as Longinus put it , " Judgement of style is the last and ripest fruit of much experience " -yet we can from the very beginning cultivate our ...
... true that the full appreciation of good style needs a developed judgement and wide reading -as Longinus put it , " Judgement of style is the last and ripest fruit of much experience " -yet we can from the very beginning cultivate our ...
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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