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  2. List of poems by William Wordsworth - Wikipedia

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    Former title: Bore the lack of a title in the 1807 and 1815 editions. From 1820 onward, the poem bore the current title. Manuscript title: "Dancers." "By their floating mill," Poems of the Fancy: 1807 Power of Music 1806 Manuscript title: "A Street Fiddler (in London)." "An Orpheus! an Orpheus! yes, Faith may grow bold," Poems of the ...

  3. Sonnet 128 - Wikipedia

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    William Wordsworth even suggests that the sonnets were how Shakespeare "unlocked his heart". There are only two sonnets that Shakespeare writes that are specifically about music, and those are Sonnet 8 and Sonnet 128. No one is certain if Shakespeare wrote the sonnets in order or if they should form a complete sequence. [3]

  4. Sonnet 145 - Wikipedia

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    Definitely, one can see an "erotic anxiety" in the poem's opening lines as the word 'hate' is spoken: "Those lips that love's own hand did make / Breathed forth the sound that said 'I hate'" (Lines 1-2). Another building of an erotic anxiety is the steady list of body parts routinely named: lips, hand, heart, and tongue.

  5. The Lucy poems - Wikipedia

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    Wordsworth's voice slowly disappears from the poems as they progress, and his voice is entirely absent from the fifth poem. His love operates on the subconscious level, and he relates to Lucy more as a spirit of nature than as a human being. [41] The poet's grief is private, and he is unable to fully explain its source. [42]

  6. Sound poetry - Wikipedia

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    Schwitters also wrote a less well-known sound poem consisting of the sound of the letter W. (Albright, 2004) Chilean Vicente Huidobro's explores phonetic mutations of words in his book "Altazor" (1931). In his story The Poet at Home, William Saroyan refers to a character who practices a form of pure poetry, composing verse of her own made-up words.

  7. Villanelle - Wikipedia

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    On the relationship between form and content, Anne Ridler notes in an introduction to her own poem "Villanelle for the Middle of the Way" a point made by T. S. Eliot, that "to use very strict form is a help, because you concentrate on the technical difficulties of mastering the form, and allow the content of the poem a more unconscious and ...

  8. The Solitary Reaper - Wikipedia

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    The words of the reaper's song are incomprehensible to the speaker, so his attention is free to focus on the tone, expressive beauty and the blissful mood it creates in him. The poem functions to "praise the beauty of music and its fluid expressive beauty", the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion ...

  9. Sweet Afton - Wikipedia

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    The poem is also known as a song set to music in 1837 in the USA by Jonathan E. Spilman; however, this is not the melody sung in Scotland. [2] "Sweet Afton" contains a number of monosyllables, which contribute to a gentle, soothing rhythm. It can be seen as a hymn for peace. The poem is in the metre 11 - 11 - 11- 11.