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... expression or the expression apart from the something . We do do so constantly in the interests of discussion and for the sake of analysis , but always to some degree falsely . When Emily Dickinson and Archibald MacLeish and others have ...
... expression or the expression apart from the something . We do do so constantly in the interests of discussion and for the sake of analysis , but always to some degree falsely . When Emily Dickinson and Archibald MacLeish and others have ...
Page 64
... expression of sorrow or jubilation may be unbeautiful ; poetry reminds us of the terrible or the ridiculous aspects of it , but renders it pleasing . The real expression is related to a particular scene which we cannot see ; poetry ...
... expression of sorrow or jubilation may be unbeautiful ; poetry reminds us of the terrible or the ridiculous aspects of it , but renders it pleasing . The real expression is related to a particular scene which we cannot see ; poetry ...
Page 152
... expression , the moving expression , for each idea . And more often than not , the right expression is pictur- esque rather than abstract . In some poems , indeed , almost the sole beauty consists in the pictures which the poet is able ...
... expression , the moving expression , for each idea . And more often than not , the right expression is pictur- esque rather than abstract . In some poems , indeed , almost the sole beauty consists in the pictures which the poet is able ...
Contents
ENRICHMENT | 16 |
POETRY AND PROSE | 33 |
THE MECHANICS OF POETRY | 49 |
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