Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry |
Contents
What Is Poetry? | 3 |
William Shakespeare Spring | 10 |
From the Book of Job Hast thou given the horse strength | 16 |
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A. E. Housman accented syllables alliteration allusion anapestic beauty birds consonant sounds dark dead death e. e. cummings Edward Edwin Arlington Robinson Emily Dickinson emotional example Explain eyes feel feet figure of speech fixed form foot green hand hear heard heart iambic iambic pentameter iambs irony killed kind language light limerick literal look lovers meaning metaphor metonymy metrical foot metrical line containing metrical pattern mither moon mouse never night onomatopoetic paradox pause poem poet poet's poetic poetry prose QUESTIONS reader repetition Reprinted by permission rhythm rime scheme Robert Frost rose scansion sense sestet Shakespeare sing sleep song sonnet soul speaker spondee stanza star sweet symbol tell thee things thou thought tone trees Triple meter trochee unaccented syllables Vocabulary voice vowel W. H. Auden William wind woods words