Poems and PoetsDavid Aloian Edgar Allan Poe ; Robert Frost ; Alfred Edward Housman ; William Butler Yeats. |
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... Writing poems was not an easy process for Yeats . Even at the height of his career he felt that he had finished a full day's labor when he had composed six lines of poetry . As a very young poet he often spent an entire week on six ...
... Writing poems was not an easy process for Yeats . Even at the height of his career he felt that he had finished a full day's labor when he had composed six lines of poetry . As a very young poet he often spent an entire week on six ...
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... writers do . Well , now I know , ( How slowly , too ) had they begun Imagine what they would have done Who built the ancient pyramid . Start at the bottom ? So men did Used up in writing prose and rhyme . The precious months and years ...
... writers do . Well , now I know , ( How slowly , too ) had they begun Imagine what they would have done Who built the ancient pyramid . Start at the bottom ? So men did Used up in writing prose and rhyme . The precious months and years ...
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... Writing in smoke a flippant epithet , As if to challenge Heaven itself to test The virtues of that famous cigarette ... Writer, VINCENT STARRETT, Evening, ROBERT WALLACE, The Bird Fancier, JAMES KIRKUP,
... Writing in smoke a flippant epithet , As if to challenge Heaven itself to test The virtues of that famous cigarette ... Writer, VINCENT STARRETT, Evening, ROBERT WALLACE, The Bird Fancier, JAMES KIRKUP,
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