Understanding Poetry

A. E. Housman achieve alliterative verse anapaestic anonymous appear ballad beauty birds blank verse Brave Benbow called century CHAPTER child Christ receive thy Coleridge composed dead death Discobolus effect Elegy element Elizabethan Emily Dickinson emotional English poetry epic express eyes feeling flower free verse heart heroic couplet Housman human iamb iambic pentameter idea imagination inspiration intellectual Keats kind Kubla Khan language lines literary live look lyric poetry magical means memory metre Milton mind modern mood narrative nature never night once origin passion perhaps poem poet poet's poetic popular primitive prose qualities reader receive thy soul rhyme rhythm rhythmical Roman sense Shakespeare simply sing Sir Patrick Spens song sonnet sound speak speech stanza sweet syllable technique tell thee thing thou thought traditional trochee true variety Wenlock Edge Whitman words write written wrote