Poetry, Direct and Oblique

Absolon actual Aeneid Aeschylus Alison allegory allusion Blake's Byronic hero carpenter Catullus character Chaucer comedy common commonplace context contrast Coy Mistress criticism D. H. Lawrence direct and oblique direct poetry direct statement Echoing Green effect eighteenth century elaborate Eliot Elizabethan embroidered statement emphasis Euripides example experience Fairy Queen feeling gives Goldsmith's Gower hath Homer human idea Iliad imply important kind kissing Lesbia less lines Lycidas lyric means of obliquity melancholy ment Miller's Tale Milton mind moral nature Nicholas nineteenth century notion oblique expression oblique poetry oblique statement onomatopoeia Paradise Lost passage passions play plot plot-obliquity poet poet's poetical obliquity poetry of statement possible primitive Prometheus prose qualities reader reference reinforce rhythm rhythmic Satan sense sensibility Shelley sick rose social song sound symbolism Tennyson things thou thought tion Tmolus to-day tradition verse village virtue words Yeats