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Page 115
... Turns Ashes - or it prospers ; and anon , Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two - is ... turn'd As , buried once , Men want dug up again . Think , in this battered Caravanserai Whose Doorways are alternate ...
... Turns Ashes - or it prospers ; and anon , Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two - is ... turn'd As , buried once , Men want dug up again . Think , in this battered Caravanserai Whose Doorways are alternate ...
Page 117
... turning , turning , In mazes of heat and sound . But for peace her soul was yearning , And now peace laps her round . Her cabin'd , ample spirit , It flutter'd and fail'd for breath . To - night it doth inherit The vasty hall of death ...
... turning , turning , In mazes of heat and sound . But for peace her soul was yearning , And now peace laps her round . Her cabin'd , ample spirit , It flutter'd and fail'd for breath . To - night it doth inherit The vasty hall of death ...
Page 124
... turns to Johnson in his inter- pretation of the Metaphysical poets , and cautions his readers against rejecting " the ... turn for help both to Dr. Johnson and to Mr. Eliot . ઃઃ It is not solely , however , the change in background and ...
... turns to Johnson in his inter- pretation of the Metaphysical poets , and cautions his readers against rejecting " the ... turn for help both to Dr. Johnson and to Mr. Eliot . ઃઃ It is not solely , however , the change in background 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