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... hand , the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine , you are interested in poetry . ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Ars Poetica A POEM should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit , Dumb As old ...
... hand , the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine , you are interested in poetry . ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Ars Poetica A POEM should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit , Dumb As old ...
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... hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes ? 1 On what wings dare he aspire ? What the hand dare seize the fire ? And what shoulder , and what art Could twist the sinews of ...
... hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes ? 1 On what wings dare he aspire ? What the hand dare seize the fire ? And what shoulder , and what art Could twist the sinews of ...
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... hand outstretched , The way he did in life once ; but this time I struck the hand off brittle on the floor , And fell back from him on the floor myself . The finger - pieces slid in all directions . ( Where did I see one of those pieces ...
... hand outstretched , The way he did in life once ; but this time I struck the hand off brittle on the floor , And fell back from him on the floor myself . The finger - pieces slid in all directions . ( Where did I see one of those pieces ...
Contents
CHAPTER ONE The Approach to Poetry | 1 |
GEORGE HERBERT Discipline | 15 |
THE UNIVERSAL ELEMENTS IN POETRY | 20 |
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beauty bird breath bright Danny Deever dark dead death doth dream earth effect EMILY DICKINSON emotional eternal eyes Ezra Pound fair fear feeling fire flowers ghost glory green hair HAMLET hand hath hear heard heart heaven hill HORATIO human imagery JOHN JOHN KEATS JOHN MILTON light lines live look Lord lovers Marianne Moore meaning mind moon morning nature never night o'er passage POEMS FOR READING poet poet's poetic poetry rain rhymes rhythm ROBERT HERRICK rose round sense shadows silent sing sleep song sonnet soul sound spirit spring stanza stars suggest sweet syllable symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee things thou thought trees turn verse vision voice W. B. YEATS W. H. Auden waves WILLIAM WILLIAM BLAKE William Carlos Williams WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind words