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Machine generated contents note: 1 "Dover Beach"-Matthew Arnold -- 3 "Grandparents"-Robert Lowell -- 5 "Death in Leamington"-John Betjeman -- 7 "when faces called flowers"-e. e. cummings -- 8 "Icy Harvest"-Celeste Turner Wright -- 9 one: The Nature of Poetry (and how to read it) -- 17 two: Content (meaning, genre, ideas) -- 29 three: Versification (rhythm, meter, rime, stanza forms, sonnets) -- 51 four: Imagery and Basic Figures of Comparison (metaphor, simile, personification, allegory, symbolism) -- 65 five: Diction -- (connotation and denotation, collocation, allu- -- sion) -- 75 six: Tone and Intellectual Figures of Speech -- (irony, hyperbole and understatement, paradox) -- 83 seven: Poetic Devices of Sound -- (onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance, consonance, -- repetition, cacophony and euphony) -- 91 eight: Evaluation -- (relativism, sentimentality, cliche, formal criticism) -- 101 nine: Explication of a Text -- (how to write about a poem) -- 107 Appendix I: Explications -- 127 Appendix II: Some Additional Poems Suitable -- for Analysis. |
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