How to Read a PoemNew American Library, 1984 - 260 pages "A Meridian book." Describes how poetic techniques create meaning, the difference between poetry and prose, and includes 200 poems. |
Contents
What Poetry Means | 1 |
Poems Supplementary to Chapter 1 | 35 |
Metaphor | 50 |
Copyright | |
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ALAN DUGAN ALEXANDER POPE alliteration ballad basic beauty BEN JONSON birds Burton Raffel CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ called child couplet CRUZ The University Cummings dark dead death Directions Publishing doth dreams E. E. Cummings Echo Eliot EMILY DICKINSON eyes EZRA POUND flowers Greek hand heart iambic Italian Jabberwocky Jonson language less light literal live LOUISE GLÜCK meaning metaphor metrical feet MICHAEL HETTICH morning mother natural never night nonliteral octave Old English once plainly poem poem's poet poet's poetic Pope prose quatrain reader refrain repetition Reprinted by permission rhyme scheme Robert SANTA CRUZ sense silencio silencio silencio singing sleep smile snow song sonnet sort sound stanza stressed sweet T. S. Eliot tell thee things thou translated tree University Library UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA unstressed syllable verse WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS woman words writing