The Art of Shakespeare’s SonnetsHelen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. |
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... feelings and thoughts is entirely irrelevant to the aesthetic success of the poem , as irrelevant as whether the ... feeling in form , feelings in forms , multiplying both to a superlative degree through 154 poems . No poet has ever ...
... feeling were unchanging , the patterns would also remain invariable . The crucial rule of thumb in understanding any lyric is that every significant change of lin- guistic pattern represents a motivated change in feeling in the speaker ...
... ( feeling hate ) is at the same time the willing criminal accessory ( feeling love ) . Though this expressed dualism cannot be called self - integration , it is an epistemologi- cal advance over the attempt by the voice of hate to ...