Author wrote a lovely poem appealing to Ludwig von Beethoven and the complexities faced by a young girl playing his music. (RK)

In this textbook an attempt has been made to bring together as much, and as great a variety, of choice literature as a book of this size could contain. Great care has been taken to secure pieces of positive merit in all respects, and to admit only such. This textbook is intended to furnish the higher classes in schools with a pleasing variety of…

Poets usually employ enjambement to communicate experiences in which, after repeated frustration, a human subject suddenly overcomes limitations and goes beyond previous limits. (DD)

Two studies were conducted to assess the relationship between expressive writing and ego identity development in college students. Results showed that poetry writers were more likely than students not writing poetry to be in the identity achievement status, and less likely to be in the foreclosure status or the identity diffusion status.…

Asserts that the poetry of James Reeves has been neglected but shows, through attention to his poetry, that perhaps he wanted to be inconspicuous. (SRT)

Profiles the poet Arnold Adoff: his life, influences, theoretical underpinnings of his work (balance, integration and utility), and the work itself. (SR)

In both Frost and Lowell the most compelling gesture of obligation is the final demur, the turning away into silence. (DD)

Analyzes the fourteenth century English poem "Patience" as a commentary on society's reactions to the crises of the latter half of that century. (TO)

Fictional poem of a black student and his white teacher, which won third prize in the 1972 Today's Education Teachers' Writing Competition. (CB)

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The author gives the reader a detailed analysis of metaphor. He classifies them in four distinct groups and gives many examples to prove his point. (MR)

When the joint experiences of a poem, poet, reader, and listener are met, there is a communion of spirits that is both test and fruition of the interpretive act. (Author)