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Jerome Beaty, William H. Matchett. SYMBOLS A symbol is something that stands for something else . Thus one can say that a certain combination of marks on a page , $ , is a symbol for the word " dollar , " that the word " dollar ” is a ...
Jerome Beaty, William H. Matchett. SYMBOLS A symbol is something that stands for something else . Thus one can say that a certain combination of marks on a page , $ , is a symbol for the word " dollar , " that the word " dollar ” is a ...
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... symbol , is then equated with a traditional symbol , the cave , which also alludes to Plato . The poet who uses a conventional symbol counts upon his readers ' having sufficient background to recognize it . Naturally the assump- tion is ...
... symbol , is then equated with a traditional symbol , the cave , which also alludes to Plato . The poet who uses a conventional symbol counts upon his readers ' having sufficient background to recognize it . Naturally the assump- tion is ...
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... symbolism , but we have no tradition to explain the symbol directly . " Tyger " is not a word with a conven- tional symbolic denotation . This is a created symbol , and we might ask ourselves , therefore , how it achieves the meaning ...
... symbolism , but we have no tradition to explain the symbol directly . " Tyger " is not a word with a conven- tional symbolic denotation . This is a created symbol , and we might ask ourselves , therefore , how it achieves the meaning ...
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A-term A. E. Housman abstract accent allegory alliteration allusions appear assonance beauty bird called catalectic clause comparison complex connotations context couplet Coy Mistress create creative image death denotation difficult discussed E. E. Cummings effect Emily Dickinson emotional emphasis English example experience eyes fact feet final flea Gerard Manley Hopkins heart iambic iambic pentameter idea implied interaction involved literal logical meaning ment merely metaphor meter metrical metrical foot Mither nature night nightingales noun passage perhaps phrase poem poet poetry possible precise prose statement prose stress question reader reading reordered version repeated repetition rhyme Robert Bridges rose sense sestina simile snow song sonnet soul sound patterns speaker spring suggests sweet syllables symbol syntactical syntax T. S. Eliot thee things third stanza thou thought tion understanding verb verbal rhythms W. B. Yeats word order Yeats