Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry |
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... stand for such abstractions as safety or control . While walking , driving , or idling , make a list of ten objects that come to your attention . What abstractions ( qualities , conditions , processes ) could each stand for if mentioned ...
... stand for such abstractions as safety or control . While walking , driving , or idling , make a list of ten objects that come to your attention . What abstractions ( qualities , conditions , processes ) could each stand for if mentioned ...
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... stand for something else ; the emphasis is more on the abstraction it stands for than on the image itself . Allegories tend to be long ; in a book like this we can consider only such miniature allegories as the sonnet below , which Sir ...
... stand for something else ; the emphasis is more on the abstraction it stands for than on the image itself . Allegories tend to be long ; in a book like this we can consider only such miniature allegories as the sonnet below , which Sir ...
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... stands for an unnamed something ( A equals X ) , which we take to be Love , Beauty , or some other quality . 1. If there were room to label these other objects in the cartoon , what qualities , processes , or the like , might each stand ...
... stands for an unnamed something ( A equals X ) , which we take to be Love , Beauty , or some other quality . 1. If there were room to label these other objects in the cartoon , what qualities , processes , or the like , might each stand ...
Common terms and phrases
accent alliteration Anthology beauty begins better bird blue body breath called close cold color comes dark dead death deep dreams earth effect emotion English example express eyes face fall feel feet fields flowers four Frost girl give green hair hand head hear heard heart holds human images John keep kind language leaves light lines live look meaning metaphor mind moon mouth move nature never night objects once pass play poem poet poetry rain rhyme rhythm Robert rose seems sense SHAKESPEARE shape sing sometimes song sound speech stand stanza sweet syllables symbol tell thee things thou thought trees turn verse vowel walk wind words writing Yeats young