Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 57
Page xviii
... humanity itself can , only to our own time and our own language . The poems in this book are from many different human " now's " -from the now of Sappho and Shakespeare as well as from the now of Pete Seeger and Gwendolyn Brooks . A few ...
... humanity itself can , only to our own time and our own language . The poems in this book are from many different human " now's " -from the now of Sappho and Shakespeare as well as from the now of Pete Seeger and Gwendolyn Brooks . A few ...
Page xxxii
... human activity , though it may be less evident in adults than in children , less common in our time than in earlier and simpler ages . When we imagine anything , we are playing with images , combining them as they have never been com ...
... human activity , though it may be less evident in adults than in children , less common in our time than in earlier and simpler ages . When we imagine anything , we are playing with images , combining them as they have never been com ...
Page xxxv
... human nature . Although we will have to make some general statements about poetry , we can find exceptions to nearly all of them . A recent cartoon showed a professor of mathematics who had written 2 + 2 = 4 on the blackboard . He was ...
... human nature . Although we will have to make some general statements about poetry , we can find exceptions to nearly all of them . A recent cartoon showed a professor of mathematics who had written 2 + 2 = 4 on the blackboard . He was ...
Contents
Exercises and Diversions | 20 |
Allusion | 37 |
George Herbert Hope | 45 |
Copyright | |
45 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accent alliteration beauty begins better bird blue body breath called close cold comes dark dead death deep dream earth effect emotion English example expressive eyes face fall feel feet five flowers four girl give gone green hair hand head hear heard heart human iambic images John keep kind language leaves less light lines lips live look means mind moon mouth move nature never night objects once pass play poem poet poetry rhyme rhythm Robert seems sense shape sing snow sometimes song sound speech stand stanza sweet syllables symbol tears tell things Thomas thou thought tree turn voice vowel walk waves wind words writing Yeats young