l. 158-160.—Rising inflection on Life, ascending, curtains, and heaven.
l. 161.—Falling inflection on vanished; rising on faces.
l. 162.—It seems that the rising inflection would be preferable on him.
In the following poem it is purposed to offer comments principally as to the movement. There is nothing that conduces more to variety in reading than frequent changes in movement. Not that these changes should be haphazard; on the contrary, as we have seen in Chapter I, there is a definite principle underlying movement. The analysis should reveal that the various ideas are of different degrees of importance, and the recognition of these differences will lead to the variety of movement.
Attention is also directed to transitions, and occasionally to the atmosphere.
Every comment should be carefully considered and challenged. The printed page is a monochrome of type. The danger is, therefore, that we read monotonously. With the years we acquire a fatal facility for pronouncing words without getting the underlying thought. The object of these analyses is to take the mind from the words to the ideas which they express, and so to improve the reading.
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A LAY MADE ABOUT THE YEAR OF THE CITY CCCIX
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