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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... reading enforces a two - beat line with a ripple of short beats between : 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 I am ... reader to give a word like " vegetable " four syllables in order to maintain the meticulous stresses of the ripple ...
... reading enforces a two - beat line with a ripple of short beats between : 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 I am ... reader to give a word like " vegetable " four syllables in order to maintain the meticulous stresses of the ripple ...
Page 165
... reading as " a strange , monotonous chant , with unexpected falling inflexions , which I cannot describe , but can imitate exactly . " Fortunately we do in fact possess some practical evidence of Tennyson's manner of reading for in 1890 ...
... reading as " a strange , monotonous chant , with unexpected falling inflexions , which I cannot describe , but can imitate exactly . " Fortunately we do in fact possess some practical evidence of Tennyson's manner of reading for in 1890 ...
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... reading may lose something of a poem's emo- tional depth ; too subjective an approach may cloak superficial matter in a vague , emotional blur . As ever , the reader must seek , with Aristotle , the golden mean ! But it is time to ...
... reading may lose something of a poem's emo- tional depth ; too subjective an approach may cloak superficial matter in a vague , emotional blur . As ever , the reader must seek , with Aristotle , the golden mean ! But it is time to ...
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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