... boasting about it to the poem's addressee. Another difference between these poets is in their use of form. Browning and Tennyson are writing in defined poetic forms: Browning uses the classic form of the heroic couplet (two lines of iambic pentamenter that rhyme together), and Tennyson uses the "In Memoriam" stanza, a stanza structure that he has created specifically for this poem ... , however, is not about order and results. The focus of poetry is to make concrete images using language; poetry is fundamentally visual and is meant to arrest or fascinate the reader. He uses the terms "R...

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... still at interest and ones that are ignored (Hacker 112). As for his prose works, the Lincoln series stand out as an American classic. For his poetry, any interest will largely depend on the taste of the reader. Sandburg put humanity in to his writing by putting himself into it. His poetry rambles and wonders as he once rambled around the country ... ...

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