Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry |
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