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... poems are far less perishable than hummingbirds ; and luckily we do not need to murder to dissect . The risk of a poem's dying while being analyzed is not nearly so great as the risk of our not deeply seeing it or of misinterpreting it ...
... poems are far less perishable than hummingbirds ; and luckily we do not need to murder to dissect . The risk of a poem's dying while being analyzed is not nearly so great as the risk of our not deeply seeing it or of misinterpreting it ...
Page 191
... poem , while bound up intimately with the patterns we have studied , is a kind of form we have yet to deal with ... poem's structure , John Crowe Ransom has suggested the word texture . See The New Criticism ( New York , 1941 ) . A ...
... poem , while bound up intimately with the patterns we have studied , is a kind of form we have yet to deal with ... poem's structure , John Crowe Ransom has suggested the word texture . See The New Criticism ( New York , 1941 ) . A ...
Page 193
... poem , we were to stop there . Looking for structure , however , is only a way to read poems more closely and intently , and to read them whole . Un- less , having made our summary of a poem's structure , we return to the poem for ...
... poem , we were to stop there . Looking for structure , however , is only a way to read poems more closely and intently , and to read them whole . Un- less , having made our summary of a poem's structure , we return to the poem for ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN alliteration aloud attitude ballad beauty bird Blake breath called child connotations dark dead dear death diction doth E. E. Cummings earth Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes face feel figures of speech flowers GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS green hand hath hear heart heaven Hurroo iambic iambic pentameter J. V. CUNNINGHAM John Johnny kind leaves light live look Lord meaning metaphor meter Milton mind moon mother myth never night o'er paraphrase pattern pleasure poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading reprinted rhythm rime Robert Frost Robert Lowell simile sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stanza star stress suggests sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought tone tree verse W. H. Auden WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind words Wordsworth Yeats