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xlightzax
xlightzax
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What are the poems that contains oxymoron written by famous authors?

The author's past and personal experience must relate to the poem, and the author must be well known, and easy to search up.

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Posted by xlightzax on Wednesday February 4, 2009 at 7:39 PM and tagged with devices, lit, literature, oxymoron, poem, poetry.

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  1. kmieciakp Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

    Donne: "The Apparition": "verier ghost" (13)

    Wordsworth:

    "The World is Too Much With Us": "sordid boon" (4)

    "Anecdote for Fathers": "fond regrets" (14)

    "The Tables Turned": "moral evil" (23)

    "Ode: Intimations of Immortality": "remains behind" (X.13)

    Coleridge: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": "Hold off!" (11)

    Frost: "Out, Out!": "nothing happened" (9); "rueful laugh" (19);

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    Posted by kmieciakp on Thursday February 5, 2009 at 12:39 AM