Convention and Revolt in PoetryHoughton Mifflin, 1919 - 346 páginas |
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... mean what they mean solely because we accept them as meaning it . " Horse " has no more connection with the animal it names than " " π- TOS , " or " equus , " or " cheval , " or " Pferd . " The varying sounds convey the idea of the ...
... mean what they mean solely because we accept them as meaning it . " Horse " has no more connection with the animal it names than " " π- TOS , " or " equus , " or " cheval , " or " Pferd . " The varying sounds convey the idea of the ...
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... means of expressing my feelings directly . There are cries , tears , gestures , shining eyes , quivering nostrils , compressed lips . And the painters and sculptors can give us that witness Dürer's Melancolia , Leonardo's Mona Lisa ...
... means of expressing my feelings directly . There are cries , tears , gestures , shining eyes , quivering nostrils , compressed lips . And the painters and sculptors can give us that witness Dürer's Melancolia , Leonardo's Mona Lisa ...
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... mean : Thus , great with child to speak , and helpless in my throes ; Biting my truant pen , beating myself for spite : " Fool ! " said my Muse to me , " look in thy heart , and write ! " So the first . " But if , " says the second ...
... mean : Thus , great with child to speak , and helpless in my throes ; Biting my truant pen , beating myself for spite : " Fool ! " said my Muse to me , " look in thy heart , and write ! " So the first . " But if , " says the second ...
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... means- what ? Here we are at once on ticklish ground . I ea- gerly desire to steer clear of metaphysics , the perilous edge of which I am circumspectly skirt- ing . For I am compelled to speak of appearance , and reality , and fact ...
... means- what ? Here we are at once on ticklish ground . I ea- gerly desire to steer clear of metaphysics , the perilous edge of which I am circumspectly skirt- ing . For I am compelled to speak of appearance , and reality , and fact ...
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... mean what we mean them to mean , and what we accept them as meaning , and nothing else . It is concurrence alone , not logic , that determines their signifi- 99 cance . If I say that blackberries are red THE ROOTS OF CONVENTION 25.
... mean what we mean them to mean , and what we accept them as meaning , and nothing else . It is concurrence alone , not logic , that determines their signifi- 99 cance . If I say that blackberries are red THE ROOTS OF CONVENTION 25.
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Página 270 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Página 96 - THE skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere, The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year ; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir: It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
Página 12 - I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men. Put out the light, and then put out the light.
Página 189 - THE gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And quench its speed i
Página 188 - Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue! Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river! Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbow'd earth— rich apple-blossom'd earth! Smile, for your lover comes.
Página 180 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
Página 251 - Or the nard in the fire? Or have tasted the bag of the bee? O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she!
Página 27 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Página 114 - WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote. And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour...
Página 340 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.