Understanding Poetry

A. E. Housman alliteration anapaest attitude ballad beauty bird comparison contrast Danny Deever dark dead death dramatic dream E. E. Cummings earth effect elements emphasis example EXERCISE eyes fact feel feet flowers foot free verse give heart heaven human iamb iambic iambic pentameter idea imagery implied important instance kind last line last stanza light look lover meaning ment merely metaphor meter metrical moon nature night nightingale Note on Versification passage pattern pause phrase poem poet poet's poetic poetry prose Prufrock question reader reference relation rhyme rhythm Robert Frost Scan scansion scene secondary accents sense shadow sing sleep song soul sound speaker spring stanza stars statement sweet symbol T. S. Eliot thee theme thing thou tion tone tree Ulalume vision W. H. Auden William Butler Yeats wind word Yeats