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... turn the corner of prayer and burn In a blessing of the sudden Sun. In the name of the damned I would turn back and run To the hidden land But the loud sun Christens down The sky . I Am found . O let him Scald me and drown Me in his ...
... turn the corner of prayer and burn In a blessing of the sudden Sun. In the name of the damned I would turn back and run To the hidden land But the loud sun Christens down The sky . I Am found . O let him Scald me and drown Me in his ...
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... turn , and again find the disorder in the mind . Night is dark like the mind , my mind is dark like the night . O light the light ! Old foibles of the right . Into that pit , now pit of anywhere , the tears upon your hands , how can you ...
... turn , and again find the disorder in the mind . Night is dark like the mind , my mind is dark like the night . O light the light ! Old foibles of the right . Into that pit , now pit of anywhere , the tears upon your hands , how can you ...
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... turn , pages turn like grey wings , slowly , over armchairs . Another child drowns , a bill is signed , and the pen blackens . The smoke of Asia drifts among the neighbors like mist . It is a good day for burning . The fire is eating ...
... turn , pages turn like grey wings , slowly , over armchairs . Another child drowns , a bill is signed , and the pen blackens . The smoke of Asia drifts among the neighbors like mist . It is a good day for burning . The fire is eating ...
Contents
AN OVERVIEW | 19 |
OF POETIC LEVELS | 41 |
SPATIALS GRAMMATICS | 55 |
Copyright | |
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accentual accentual-syllabic ALFRED KREYMBORG alliteration Anglo-Saxon prosody bells birds blood caesura called consonants Copyright couplet Cynghanedd dark dead death dipodics doth dream E. E. Cummings earth egopoetic elements English eyes falling flesh free verse Frost genres grammatic green haiku Hark hear heart iamb iambic John kiss language lark Lewis Turco light look Lord Randal love supreme lyric means metaphor metrical moon morning mother narrative never night parallel phrase Pocoangelini poem poet poetry point-of-view prose prosody refrain reprinted with permission rhyme rhythm Richard Frost Says Robbin sing sirs song sonic sonnet sound speak stanza story suggested writing assignment sweet syllabic verse syllables techniques tell things thou tree trochee tropes turn verse feet voice W.D. Snodgrass Wallace Stevens William Carlos Williams Williams wind word-count words writing assignment Write written