The Focal Word: An Introduction to PoetryJacaranda Press, 1966 - 317 pages |
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Page 111
... Cloud , or flowre . This last constellation of ideas and images is particularly dense : the cloud becomes an intimation of the eternal when it is gilded , by the sun , a timeless symbol of God ; and the Platonic paradox of gilded Cloud ...
... Cloud , or flowre . This last constellation of ideas and images is particularly dense : the cloud becomes an intimation of the eternal when it is gilded , by the sun , a timeless symbol of God ; and the Platonic paradox of gilded Cloud ...
Page 198
... cloud to fly with thee ; A wave to pant beneath thy power , and share The impulse of thy strength , only less free Than thou , O uncontrollable ! If even I were as in my boyhood , and could be The comrade of thy wanderings over Heaven ...
... cloud to fly with thee ; A wave to pant beneath thy power , and share The impulse of thy strength , only less free Than thou , O uncontrollable ! If even I were as in my boyhood , and could be The comrade of thy wanderings over Heaven ...
Page 242
... clouds . Clouds are rarely static , and these move with a wild capriciousness , yet in smooth , wavy volumes - clouds of flour ( and we are back with colour and texture ) that in their drifting form definite shapes which soon melt away ...
... clouds . Clouds are rarely static , and these move with a wild capriciousness , yet in smooth , wavy volumes - clouds of flour ( and we are back with colour and texture ) that in their drifting form definite shapes which soon melt away ...
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alliteration beauty bird blank verse blood body bora ring breath bright charm cloud colour conventional conveyed couplet dance dark dead death delight Donne doth dream earth effect English English Poetry eternal experience expression eyes F. R. Leavis fair fear feeling flowers Gerard Manley Hopkins give grace hand hath hear heart heaven human imagination James McAuley Judith Wright Keats king King Lear kiss L. C. Knights leaves light lines living look Lord lovers Lycidas Macbeth Milton mind moon nature never night o'er passage passion phrase play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry reality realized rhyme rhythm rich satiric Scholar Gipsy seems sense Shakespeare sing sleep soft song soul sound spirit spring stanza stars suggestion surprising sweet T. S. Eliot TAMBURLAINE tears Tell thee theme things thou thought tone trees turn verse vitality voice wind words youth