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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... autumn , what the winter snows , And what the summer shade , what day and night , The evening and the morning , what my dreams And what my waking thoughts supplied , to nurse That spirit of religious love in which I walked with Nature ...
... autumn , what the winter snows , And what the summer shade , what day and night , The evening and the morning , what my dreams And what my waking thoughts supplied , to nurse That spirit of religious love in which I walked with Nature ...
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... autumn Hearts that have lost their own . On acres of the seeded grasses The changing burnish heaves ; Or marshalled under moons of harvest Stand still all night the sheaves ; Or beeches strip in storms for winter And stain the wind with ...
... autumn Hearts that have lost their own . On acres of the seeded grasses The changing burnish heaves ; Or marshalled under moons of harvest Stand still all night the sheaves ; Or beeches strip in storms for winter And stain the wind with ...
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John Buchanan. Shakespeare here treats of the autumn of life in three highly compressed metaphors charged with both the rational and emo- tional processes of change and decay . The concluding couplet , as with so many of Shakespeare's ...
John Buchanan. Shakespeare here treats of the autumn of life in three highly compressed metaphors charged with both the rational and emo- tional processes of change and decay . The concluding couplet , as with so many of Shakespeare's ...
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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