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This lecture by T. S. Eliot was delivered at Harvard University, February 17, 1933 I am a great admirer of Mr. Eliot’s work (Eliot from now on), both poetry, prose and critical essays. Albeit I do not find the enthusiasm…
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1953 Corona Standard Typewriter
When writing my essays or analyses, I do not draft them on a computer, that process is for later when or if I decide to post the article here. My metrical analyses are always hand written due to the use…
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Shelley’s “Ozymandias”
Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desart … Near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell…
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The Dos and Don’ts when using Heroic Couplets
Heroic couplets have been a useful and successful vehicle in formal poetry. They have a uniqueness to them that is pleasing in both a visual and audible sense. The heroic couplet became popular from the influence of the likes of…
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The Poet’s Voice
Ferrick Gray How many times have I said this? Ha! Be yourself, and do not try to be someone else. I mention this in my essay Charging Poetry with Meaning, but I will elaborate further in what follows. There are…
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What’s this Thing called Meter?
Ferrick Gray Meter — Something modern poets try to avoid. Music for Composition When we talk of meter in accentual-syllabic verse, it is not something that should be obvious. If it is obvious, then your work will be of little…
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Charging Poetry with Meaning
With a few words from Ezra Pound Ways to Group Poetry How would you group different styles of poetry? It seems that there are a whole host of ways of doing this. As we may suspect, as many ways as…
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An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
Being the Prologue to the SatiresVersion by the University Tutorial Press Ltd, Foxton 1950 What This Is and Is Not. In a similar fashion to other analyses, this review will only consider metrical variations in the verses. However, the common…
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The Dunciad—Part 4: Book I—verses 46, 47
Verse 46: 45 In clouded Majesty here Dulness Shone;46 Four guardian Virtues, round, support her throne. What we will find with general analysis is that one of the verses of a couplet will be iambic pentameter, and the other will…
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Review of “To Look Upon Eurydice”
A Collection of Poemsby Kenneth Daniel Wisseman The Book Proper: One of the first things you notice about this book by casually flipping through the pages is the quality of the book itself. The paper is smooth and the text…