Poetry from Statement to Meaning

A-term A. E. Housman abstract accent allegory alliteration allusions appear assonance beauty bird called catalectic clause comparison complex connotations context couplet Coy Mistress create creative image death denotation difficult discussed E. E. Cummings effect Emily Dickinson emotional emphasis English example experience eyes fact feet final flea heart iambic iambic pentameter idea implied interaction involved Last Duchess literal logical meaning ment merely metaphor meter metrical metrical feet Mither nature night nightingales noun passage perhaps phrase poem poet poetry possible precise prose statement prose stress question reader reading reordered version repeated repetition rhyme Robert Bridges rose sense sestina simile snow song sonnet soul sound patterns speaker spring suggests sweet syllables symbol syntactical syntax T. S. Eliot thee things third stanza thou thought tion tone understanding verb verbal rhythms W. B. Yeats word order Yeats ΙΟ