Poems and PoetsDavid Aloian Edgar Allan Poe ; Robert Frost ; Alfred Edward Housman ; William Butler Yeats. |
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... stories have been made into movies and performed on tele- vision . Poe's views on how a short story should be con- structed are today almost universally followed by profes- sional story writers . He is often called the Father of the Short ...
... stories have been made into movies and performed on tele- vision . Poe's views on how a short story should be con- structed are today almost universally followed by profes- sional story writers . He is often called the Father of the Short ...
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... story . At one time or another all folk ballads were sung ; today many of them are still sung , but the music of a great many others has been lost . Sung or not , they have always had a strong appeal to readers and listeners . The stories ...
... story . At one time or another all folk ballads were sung ; today many of them are still sung , but the music of a great many others has been lost . Sung or not , they have always had a strong appeal to readers and listeners . The stories ...
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... story poems using many of the same characteristics . Like folk ballads , literary ballads tell a swift , action - filled story in plain language . Literary ballads concentrate on a single character or event , they use repetition , and ...
... story poems using many of the same characteristics . Like folk ballads , literary ballads tell a swift , action - filled story in plain language . Literary ballads concentrate on a single character or event , they use repetition , and ...
Contents
RHYTHM RHYME AND SOUND EFFECTS | 21 |
The Creation of Beauty | 43 |
SIMILES METAPHORS AND SYMBOLS | 69 |
Copyright | |
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A. E. Housman ballads beauty bells bird breath bright Copyright cried Danny Deever dark daughter dead dear death door doth dream earth eternal eyes face fall father fell fire flower free verse grass Gunga Din hand head hear heard heart heaven horse Housman iambic John Henry JOHN KEATS lady lake Lawd leaves light live look Lord lover meaning metaphor meter moon moonlight morning mother never night o'er Ogden Nash poem poet poetry prose raven rhyme rhythm RICHARD ARMOUR Robert Frost sail shadow shine sing sleep smile song Sonnet soul sound stand stanza stars stone stood sweet syllables T. S. ELIOT tell thee things thou thought tone tree Twas voice W. H. AUDEN walk wild William Butler Yeats WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wings words young