Excerpt from Selections From Five English Poets: Edited With Introduction and Notes When a poem is read aloud it is easy to realize that poetry is closely related to music. Like music it awakens vague, mysterious feelings which cannot be expressed in ordinary speech and the person who fails to catch the subtle melody of a poem gets but little from it even though he understands perfectly the mean ing of the words. To illustrate this, put into common place prose a passage of beautiful verse, for instance, lines 3 58 - 372 of ...
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Excerpt from Selections From Five English Poets: Edited With Introduction and Notes When a poem is read aloud it is easy to realize that poetry is closely related to music. Like music it awakens vague, mysterious feelings which cannot be expressed in ordinary speech and the person who fails to catch the subtle melody of a poem gets but little from it even though he understands perfectly the mean ing of the words. To illustrate this, put into common place prose a passage of beautiful verse, for instance, lines 3 58 - 372 of Tke Ancient Mariner, beginning, Sometimes a-dropping from the sky, - and then compare the prose version with the original. flthe two will be found as unlike as the flower after it has been dissected by the botanist, and the same flower still on the stalk, opening its petals to the morning sun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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