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... symbol for any choice in life between alternatives that appear almost equally attractive but will result through the years in a large dif- ference in the kind of experience one knows . Image , metaphor , and symbol shade into each other ...
... symbol for any choice in life between alternatives that appear almost equally attractive but will result through the years in a large dif- ference in the kind of experience one knows . Image , metaphor , and symbol shade into each other ...
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... symbol of physical desire and his white rose a symbol of spiritual at- tachment that when we get to the metaphor in the third line , we uncon- sciously substitute passion for the red rose in our minds , knowing without thinking that ...
... symbol of physical desire and his white rose a symbol of spiritual at- tachment that when we get to the metaphor in the third line , we uncon- sciously substitute passion for the red rose in our minds , knowing without thinking that ...
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... symbol , like the corona around the sun or like connotations around a richly suggestive word . But the very fact that a symbol may be so rich in its meanings makes it necessary that we use the greatest tact in its interpretation ...
... symbol , like the corona around the sun or like connotations around a richly suggestive word . But the very fact that a symbol may be so rich in its meanings makes it necessary that we use the greatest tact in its interpretation ...
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