The Art of Reading PoetryI do not believe that poetry is mysterious or esoteric. It is for all who can read, who can call words, who have rhythm enough, by nature, so that a jazz orchestra sets feet and hands in motion. Likewise, this invitation is to all. But it is, especially, invitation to those regretfully convinced that poetry is not for them, and to those who think they prefer the unequivocating directness of prose. It is invitation to labor, and after labor, entrance upon pleasure "not to be chang'd by place or time," the peculiar pleasure which poetry is. - Invitation to reading. |
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... rime , as a change of the last word from the conventional hallelujah at once makes clear . That change also makes clear one other thing : that rime is not an addition from without , not something superimposed on an idea ; it works ...
... rime , as a change of the last word from the conventional hallelujah at once makes clear . That change also makes clear one other thing : that rime is not an addition from without , not something superimposed on an idea ; it works ...
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... rime before he thought of meaning , and even that thought carried him hardly farther than arbitrary selection of the first words at hand in a riming dictionary . Rime is for music , and should please a reader's ear . Rime is also a ...
... rime before he thought of meaning , and even that thought carried him hardly farther than arbitrary selection of the first words at hand in a riming dictionary . Rime is for music , and should please a reader's ear . Rime is also a ...
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... rime . Notice the words at the ends of each line in " Futility . " There is only one rime in each stanza . Part of the effectiveness of the device seems to be in the surprise experienced by the reader at missing the rime which he has ...
... rime . Notice the words at the ends of each line in " Futility . " There is only one rime in each stanza . Part of the effectiveness of the device seems to be in the surprise experienced by the reader at missing the rime which he has ...
Contents
OUTLINE FOR A DEFENSE | 1 |
LIONS IN THE PATH | 23 |
THE READING AND THE READINGS OF THE POEM | 39 |
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