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How to Read Poetry Like a Professor
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Description
Poetry demands more from readers-intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually-than other literary forms. Most of us started out loving poetry because it filled our beloved children's books from Dr. Seuss to Robert Louis Stevenson. Eventually, our reading shifted to prose and later when we encountered poetry again, we had no recent experience to make it feel familiar. But understanding poetry doesn't need to be so overwhelming. In an entertaining and engaging voice, Thomas C. Foster shows readers how to overcome their fear of poetry and learn to enjoy it once more. From classic poets such as Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Edna St. Vincent Millay to later poets such as E.E. Cummings, Billy Collins, and Seamus Heaney, How to Read Poetry Like a Professor examines a wide array of poems and teaches readers:
- - How to read a poem to understand its primary meaning.- The different technical elements of poetry such as meter, diction, rhyme, line structures, length, order, regularity, and how to learn to see these elements as allies rather than adversaries.- How to listen for a poem's secondary meaning by paying attention to the echoes that the language of poetry summons up.- How to hear the music in poems-and the poetry in songs!
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2018-05-03
Publication Date:
2018-05-03
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
006211378X
ISBN13:
9780062113788
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Weight:
168 g
Height:
134 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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Almost no signs of wear. Book pages have no markings, accessories are intact and all other media are in good condition.
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