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Page 389
... images that will most vividly communicate the experience he writes of . Much of the concrete image - making language of poetry is figurative : it commu- nicates a truth or an idea or emotion , that is , without itself being literally ...
... images that will most vividly communicate the experience he writes of . Much of the concrete image - making language of poetry is figurative : it commu- nicates a truth or an idea or emotion , that is , without itself being literally ...
Page 391
... images— images perfectly appropriate to both - breaks down some of the rigid categories in which he ordinarily thinks of triumph , life , and death . And though he comes away with no definable new truth , the reader finds himself seeing ...
... images— images perfectly appropriate to both - breaks down some of the rigid categories in which he ordinarily thinks of triumph , life , and death . And though he comes away with no definable new truth , the reader finds himself seeing ...
Page 667
... images express the extremes of his self - shattering consciousness . " The eyes that fix you , " pin you to the wall like an insect spe- cimen to be stared at as it dies , ejecting its insides at both ends in its death agony ( lines 55 ...
... images express the extremes of his self - shattering consciousness . " The eyes that fix you , " pin you to the wall like an insect spe- cimen to be stared at as it dies , ejecting its insides at both ends in its death agony ( lines 55 ...
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