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... Allusion is , in essence , a refined application of connotation . Where connotative imagery refers one mentally to his own pri- mary experience , allusion refers one to the secondary experience of art and history . In some ways , allusion ...
... Allusion is , in essence , a refined application of connotation . Where connotative imagery refers one mentally to his own pri- mary experience , allusion refers one to the secondary experience of art and history . In some ways , allusion ...
Page 114
... allusion , has considerable force . Had he chosen to refer to some other skull in literature , say , Byron's " Lines In- scribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull , " the effect would have been entirely different , and , probably , lost ...
... allusion , has considerable force . Had he chosen to refer to some other skull in literature , say , Byron's " Lines In- scribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull , " the effect would have been entirely different , and , probably , lost ...
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... allusion than psychology and sociology . In the years following World War I , there developed a trend toward highly allusive poetry of great obscurity . Poets such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot made no attempt to screen references to ...
... allusion than psychology and sociology . In the years following World War I , there developed a trend toward highly allusive poetry of great obscurity . Poets such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot made no attempt to screen references to ...
Contents
PURPOSE AND FORM | 15 |
Lyrical and Narrative | 28 |
HOW TO READ A POEM | 39 |
Copyright | |
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A. E. Housman allusion anapest beauty bird called character connotation consonant couplet dark death diction dream E. E. Cummings emotional English example experience eyes feel figurative language figures of speech following poem free verse Gerard Manley Hopkins heart human iambic iambic pentameter idea imagery images ironic irony John Donne kind light literal live meaning meter metrical metrical foot mind monologue moon musical effects myth never night Notice paradox pattern pentameter picture poem poem's poet poet's poetic poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading repetition reprinted by permission rhyme rhythm Richard Cory Richard Wilbur Robert sense sings sleep song sonnet sound speaker stanza statement story suggest symbols T. S. Eliot tell thee things thou thought tone tree understand voice vowel W. H. Auden wind word choice write