The Act of Poetry: A Practical Introduction to the Reading of Poems

A. E. Housman accents beauty bird blood breast breath bright child cloud cold context Copyright dark dead death doth dream E. E. Cummings earth example eyes father fear feel feet flowers foot Gerard Manley Hopkins hair hands hath hear heard heart heaven human iamb iambic pentameter Karl Shapiro language leaves light live look loud man's meaning metaphor meter mind moon morning mother move never night o'er object person POEMS FOR COMPARISON poet poet's poetic poetry rain reader rhyme rhythm Richard Cory Richard Wilbur Robert Frost sails sense sestet ship sigh silent sing slant rhyme sleep song sonnet soul sound spirit stanza star strange sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot thee things thou thought trees trochee Ulysses verbal verse voice W. H. Auden walk Wallace Stevens wind words youth