Practical Stylistics: An Approach to Poetry

A.E. Housman activities actual aesthetic animacy appearance argue argument association awareness birds butterfly chapter Cleaving the darkness cocks together crow comparison consider constraints context conventional course discourse discussion divergent e e cummings earlier educational effect elusive essential example experience expressed grammatical haiku images implicatures individual interpretation interpretive communities intertex intertextual kind Kobayashi Issa lark last line lexical linguistic literature look mariner meaning mind mountain grass mountain hare night normal noun phrases original particular Patience Strong patterning of language perception perhaps Philip Larkin poem poet poetic texts possible present pronoun prose prosodic reader reality reference referential relevant representation represented rhyme seems sense sentence significance silver blow simple singing social song Stylistics suggest T.S. Eliot tense textual things tion tree variants verb verse W.H. Auden wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams words Wordsworth