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Genre/Form: | Poetry |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Shira Wolosky Weiss |
ISBN: | 0195138708 9780195138702 9780199707836 0199707839 9786611515164 661151516X 9780195371185 0195371186 |
OCLC Number: | 44516757 |
Description: | xi, 226 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Preface -- Word choice -- Syntax and the poetic line -- Images : simile and metaphor -- Metaphor and the sonnet -- The sonnet -- Poetic conventions -- More verse forms -- Personification -- Poetic voice -- Gender and poetic voice -- Poetic rhythm : metric -- Poetic rhythm : sound and rhyme -- Rhetoric : more tropes -- Incomplete figures and the art of reading -- Appendix -- Glossary -- Bibliographical backgrounds -- Index of poems -- Index of poets. |
Responsibility: | Shira Wolosky. |
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Abstract:
As the least literal form of creative writing, poetry is for many readers also the most cryptic. This book offers a step-by-step introduction to skills for reading poetry, working from the individual word, the line, and the image to verse forms, voice and gender, and metrical patterns.
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very illuminating...full of interest for the reader...a compelling read * The Use of English, Volume 59, Number 1 *
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