A Text-book for the Study of PoetryAllyn and Bacon, 1913 - 214 pagine |
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Pagina 16
... writer may select incidents , details , and coloring to emphasize the emotion . But he does not hold himself in a professedly emotional state towards his narrative . He is giving information about his characters or their environ- ment ...
... writer may select incidents , details , and coloring to emphasize the emotion . But he does not hold himself in a professedly emotional state towards his narrative . He is giving information about his characters or their environ- ment ...
Pagina 22
... writer is fixed exclusively on self or on the private , personal phase of the experience , rather than on the universal character of the emotion he feels , as com- mon to all men . His reader must be able to find in the poem an ...
... writer is fixed exclusively on self or on the private , personal phase of the experience , rather than on the universal character of the emotion he feels , as com- mon to all men . His reader must be able to find in the poem an ...
Pagina 34
... writer is thinking of little more than a faithful account of external details : - Prone from the dripping cave and dumb cascade The pendent icicle . The following , on the other hand , is possessed of some strange magical power over the ...
... writer is thinking of little more than a faithful account of external details : - Prone from the dripping cave and dumb cascade The pendent icicle . The following , on the other hand , is possessed of some strange magical power over the ...
Pagina 37
... writer's realization of it as one conception . Fancy , on the other hand , does not properly create . It composes piecemeal , part by part . Its eye is fastened ex- clusively on the details . These details in themselves may be of a high ...
... writer's realization of it as one conception . Fancy , on the other hand , does not properly create . It composes piecemeal , part by part . Its eye is fastened ex- clusively on the details . These details in themselves may be of a high ...
Pagina 48
... writer attempts merely to represent dramatically what he conceives to be the experience of the human race in general , when , in the full possession of his power , a man is brought face to face with approaching death . Again in the ...
... writer attempts merely to represent dramatically what he conceives to be the experience of the human race in general , when , in the full possession of his power , a man is brought face to face with approaching death . Again in the ...
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Pagina 192 - Fear death? — to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go...
Pagina 158 - I SPRANG to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gatebolts undrew ; "Speed...
Pagina 39 - O Proserpina ! For the flowers now that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Pagina 158 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns," he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade!
Pagina 38 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Pagina 195 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Pagina 32 - Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; "The game is done! I've won! I've won!
Pagina 200 - Each cast at the other, as when two black clouds, With Heaven's artillery fraught, come rattling on Over the Caspian ; then stand front to front Hovering a space, till winds the signal blow To join their dark encounter in mid air...
Pagina 44 - Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir...
Pagina 165 - THAT'S my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf's hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. Will't please you sit and look at her? I said "Fra Pandolf...