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... Shakespeare : It is always beautiful . It is not always pretty WINTER When icicles hang by the wall , And Dick the shepherd blows his nail , And Tom bears logs into the hall , And milk comes frozen home in pail , When blood is nipped ...
... Shakespeare : It is always beautiful . It is not always pretty WINTER When icicles hang by the wall , And Dick the shepherd blows his nail , And Tom bears logs into the hall , And milk comes frozen home in pail , When blood is nipped ...
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... Shakespeare 11. Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails . Shakespeare 12. The tawny - hided desert crouches watching her . Francis Thompson Shakespeare 13 ... Let us sit upon the ground And ...
... Shakespeare 11. Love's feeling is more soft and sensible Than are the tender horns of cockled snails . Shakespeare 12. The tawny - hided desert crouches watching her . Francis Thompson Shakespeare 13 ... Let us sit upon the ground And ...
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... Shakespeare's sonnet . In fact , it is concerned primarily with that staple of small talk , the weather . On the other hand , Shakespeare's sonnet is concerned with the universal human tragedy of growing old , with approaching death ...
... Shakespeare's sonnet . In fact , it is concerned primarily with that staple of small talk , the weather . On the other hand , Shakespeare's sonnet is concerned with the universal human tragedy of growing old , with approaching death ...
Contents
What Is Poetry? | 3 |
From the Book of Job Hast thou given the horse strength | 16 |
Mari Evans | 27 |
Copyright | |
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A. E. Housman accented syllable alliteration allusion anapestic beauty birds College connotations consonant sounds dark dead death e. e. cummings effect Emily Dickinson emotional example experience Explain eyes feel feet figurative term figure of speech flower foot green hand hear heard heart heaven human iambic iambic pentameter iambs irony killed kind language light literal live look lovers meaning metaphor metonymy metrical foot metrical pattern mither moon mouse never night onomatopoetic paradox pause poem poet poet's poetic poetry prose QUESTIONS reader repetition rhythm rime scheme Robert Frost rose scansion sense sestet Shakespeare silence sing sleep song sonnet soul speaker spondee stanza star suggest sweet symbol tell thee things thou thought tone trees trochee Ulysses unaccented syllables verse Vocabulary voice vowel W. H. Auden wind woods words