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If we reinvoke the distinction between two kinds of sound effects, we can note that, with the possible exception of the "Toll ... toll" echo to simulate the sound of the "lone bell-bird" (28), the stanza's way of invoking particular sounds is simply to refer to them.

The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth 2008

WA MntHunter, Duck Creek Dick, asked you for a few stanza's of "Blood on the Risers."

Dick Winters 2008

Any expectant parent, fearing the impending sleep deprivation, can appreciate the opening stanza's invocation of "a strong ghost" to stand guard "That my Michael may sleep sound,/Nor cry, nor turn in the bed/Till his morning meal come round."

Parenting And Poetry: Why I Taught My Four-Year-Olds To Recite Frost 2010

Any expectant parent, fearing the impending sleep deprivation, can appreciate the opening stanza's invocation of "a strong ghost" to stand guard "That my Michael may sleep sound,/Nor cry, nor turn in the bed/Till his morning meal come round."

Parenting And Poetry: Why I Taught My Four-Year-Olds To Recite Frost Jessie Kunhardt 2010

Any expectant parent, fearing the impending sleep deprivation, can appreciate the opening stanza's invocation of "a strong ghost" to stand guard "That my Michael may sleep sound,/Nor cry, nor turn in the bed/Till his morning meal come round."

Parenting And Poetry: Why I Taught My Four-Year-Olds To Recite Frost 2010

The stanza's concluding couplet, however, with its assertion that "A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed/One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud" (55-56), signals that the process of self-forgetting is not complete.

Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007

This is the study for the panel The Viking's Bride from the frieze decoration The Skeleton in Armour inscribed with stanza's from Longfellow's poem in imitation runic script around the edges.

Archive 2008-07-01 Hermes 2008

Note also the reference to Chimney-sweepers in the 3rd stanza's line, "How the Chimney-sweepers cry".

Archive 2007-10-01 2007

Among the poem's impressive layers is how the first draft of the 2nd stanza's last line "The mind-forg'd manacles I hear" actually was written as "The German-forg'd manacles I hear", reflecting of course the history at the time with the Hanover empire and Great Britain.

Archive 2007-10-01 2007

Among the poem's impressive layers is how the first draft of the 2nd stanza's last line "The mind-forg'd manacles I hear" actually was written as "The German-forg'd manacles I hear", reflecting of course the history at the time with the Hanover empire and Great Britain.

POLITICS, ON THE POEM'S OWN TERMS 2007