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... stanza : there is no pressure of feeling to demand individual and lively expression and thus give life to the mechanics of the verse structure . The second stanza , while remaining well within the convention of itemizing beauty , has ...
... stanza : there is no pressure of feeling to demand individual and lively expression and thus give life to the mechanics of the verse structure . The second stanza , while remaining well within the convention of itemizing beauty , has ...
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... stanzas , besides the native good sense of honest frankness , is the control of language . The diction is simple and clear ; the verse moves with great grace , the simple stanza pattern subdued each time to the changing rhythms of the ...
... stanzas , besides the native good sense of honest frankness , is the control of language . The diction is simple and clear ; the verse moves with great grace , the simple stanza pattern subdued each time to the changing rhythms of the ...
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... stanza the images are interfused in such a way as to convey the oneness of nature in man and the rest of creation , the vitalizing and the destructive force of nature , and a hint that nature produces these opposite effects ...
... stanza the images are interfused in such a way as to convey the oneness of nature in man and the rest of creation , the vitalizing and the destructive force of nature , and a hint that nature produces these opposite effects ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
With hym ther was his sone a yong Squier | 7 |
BALLADS | 13 |
Copyright | |
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alliteration beauty bird blank verse blood breath bright charm clouds colour conveyed couplet dance dark dead death delight Donne doth dream earth effect English English Poetry eternal experience expression eyes F. R. Leavis fair fear feeling flowers Gerard Manley Hopkins give grace hath hear heart heaven human imagination James McAuley Jonson Judith Wright Keats king King Lear kiss L. C. Knights leaves light lines lips living look Lord lovers Lycidas Macbeth Milton mind moon nature never night o'er passage passion phrase play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry reality realized rhyme rhythm rich satiric Scholar Gipsy seems sense Shakespeare sing sleep soft song soul sound spirit spring stanza stars strong suggestion surprising sweet T. S. Eliot TAMBURLAINE tears Tell thee theme things thou thought tone trees turn verse vision vitality voice VOLPONE wind words youth