An Oakham Overture to PoetryAn anthology of English poetry including works by William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling, and Thomas Hardy. A discussion of the poet's style and review questions follow each selection. |
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... experience convinces me that , unless their initial introduction to poetry is relevant and comprehensible , the vast majority of pupils will leave school largely unaware of the poetic experience . As in an opera , so with poetry ; the ...
... experience convinces me that , unless their initial introduction to poetry is relevant and comprehensible , the vast majority of pupils will leave school largely unaware of the poetic experience . As in an opera , so with poetry ; the ...
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... experience and in so far as he succeeds it will be because he has captured in words some experience unique to himself which his art enables him to share with us , anyway in part . His experience will necessarily be subjective and is ...
... experience and in so far as he succeeds it will be because he has captured in words some experience unique to himself which his art enables him to share with us , anyway in part . His experience will necessarily be subjective and is ...
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... experience of that season be quite as it was before his reading of the poem . A new dimension has been added to his experience . It is in his power to give significance to the everyday events of life that the poet displays his genius ...
... experience of that season be quite as it was before his reading of the poem . A new dimension has been added to his experience . It is in his power to give significance to the everyday events of life that the poet displays his genius ...
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A. E. HOUSMAN anthology autumn ballad beauty birds blood blue boys church Colour-Sergeant couplet D. H. LAWRENCE Danny Deever dark dead death ding Discussion topics dream earth echo emotional English extracts eyes final stanza fire flowers G. K. Chesterton grass green Hardy hear heart Hopkins hour iambic J. K. Stephen Joan Hunter Dunn Keats Kipling knew leaves light look Lord mind moon morning never night o'er Oakham old School List PHILIP LARKIN Pobble poem poet poet's poetic poetry Pope quiet reader reading rhyme rhythm road ROBERT HERRICK sense shade Shakespeare silence Sir Patrick Spens sleep smile sonnet soul sound spring stand sweet Tennyson thee theme things THOMAS HARDY thou thought thrush Timothy Winters turn verse voice vowel W. H. Davies W. R. Rodgers walk weeds wind words