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Charging Poetry with Meaning
Ferrick Gray — 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 there are individuals. There will be three types of poetry, regardless of your method. Sure, there are!
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An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Ferrick Gray — In a similar fashion to other analyses, this review will only consider metrical variations in the verses. However, the common substitution of a trochee for an iamb at the start of a verse will not be analyze here. Some of Pope’s verses are what we call feminine, but I have not included all of them since many do not qualify as a metrical variation.
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The Dunciad—Book I—Verses 46, 47
Ferrick Gray — Issue 5 of Working with Pope continues with the metrical analysis of The Dunciad. This issue looks at verses 46 and 47 from Book I.
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Review of “To Look Upon Eurydice”—Kenneth Daniel Wisseman
Ferrick Gray — A Collection of Poems by Kenneth Daniel Wisseman This original review of To Look Upon Eurydice can also be found on Goodreads.
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The Dunciad—Book I—Verses 20, 37
Ferrick Gray — Issue 4 of Working with Pope continues with the metrical analysis of The Dunciad. This issue looks at verses 20 and 37 from Book I.
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An Essay on Criticism
Ferrick Gray — This analysis is not exactly a critique, but in some ways it may well be. One would be daring to criticize a master such as Pope. However, this is about analyzing the metrical variations that Pope has employed in his work. In some instances, the verses do not seem to follow without our stumbling across certain words. When the construction of the…
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Rumor Has It
Ferrick Gray — This volume is not technical in the way Thĕ (Study of) Trees was presented, and is geared more to the general reader of formal poetry. The title of this collection is named after the first major poem namely Rumor Has It. The poem itself is a light-hearted observation of how society functions when it comes to the interaction of people in different…
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The Dunciad—Book I—Verses 15, 17
Ferrick Gray — Issue 2 of Working with Pope continues with the metrical analysis of The Dunciad. This issue looks at verses 15 and 17 from Book I.
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The Dunciad—Book I—Verses 11, 12
Ferrick Gray — Alexander Pope is a poet unsurpassed in skill, creativeness and wit. His expertise using what we may call the rimed couplet is beyond belief. His idol John Dryden also used this form, but Pope made it his own, and perfected it. No-one can dispute this fact.
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The Sonnet Collection
Ferrick Gray — For many of us who are considered a purist or those who enjoy what has become known as formal or structured poetry (to distinguish it from free verse poetry), the sonnet is of the type high poetry. This term was coined by T. W. H. Crosland in his The English Sonnet published in 1917.