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Page 389
... face to face with the thought of actually proposing to a woman , Prufrock recognizes that his nature is solitary , that he is incapable of coming out of his shell ( the everyday trite version of the " ragged claws " image ) . By ...
... face to face with the thought of actually proposing to a woman , Prufrock recognizes that his nature is solitary , that he is incapable of coming out of his shell ( the everyday trite version of the " ragged claws " image ) . By ...
Page 441
... face of thine Had been so full of doubleness ? Or else within those crystal eyne Had rest so much unstableness ? Thy face so fair , thy look so strange , Who would have thought so full of change ? 1. 3. eyne : Eyes . [ Brown is my Love ] ...
... face of thine Had been so full of doubleness ? Or else within those crystal eyne Had rest so much unstableness ? Thy face so fair , thy look so strange , Who would have thought so full of change ? 1. 3. eyne : Eyes . [ Brown is my Love ] ...
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... face like a rain - beaten stone " Roethke seems to be remembering the phrase in Yeats's The Magi ( p . 577 ) , but here , referring to a known human face , it of course has dif- ferent connotations . page 627 Ferlinghetti , " Don't Let ...
... face like a rain - beaten stone " Roethke seems to be remembering the phrase in Yeats's The Magi ( p . 577 ) , but here , referring to a known human face , it of course has dif- ferent connotations . page 627 Ferlinghetti , " Don't Let ...
Contents
The Art of Reading Poetry 383 | 383 |
Versification 638 | 391 |
Transition to Poetry | 392 |
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A. E. HOUSMAN ANDREW MARVELL beauty birds boughs bright brown clouds cold cried dark dead death doth dream e. e. cummings earth elegy Euroclydon eyes fair fall fear feel fire flowers Goddamm gone grass green Gwendolyn Brooks hair hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven hill king Lady Langston Hughes leaves light live lonely lonnë look LOUIS MACNEICE Lycidas meaning mind Miniver moon morning mountains never night pale Patrick Spence poem poet poetry praise Prufrock rhyme round sang sigh silent sing sleep Slim snow song SONNET Sonnet 23 soul sound stanza stars sweet T. E. HULME T. S. Eliot tell thee things thou thought tree turn verse voice W. H. AUDEN walk weep WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind wings word Yeats young