How to read and understand poetry

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Covers a range of poems, from Renaissance England to contemporary America, focusing on poetic techniques, patterns, habits, and genres, with a special concern for the three areas that define what poetry is and what distinguishes it from other kinds of literary utterance: figurative language, music and sound, and tone of voice.

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Full title :How to read and understand poetry / William Spiegelman.

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Publication Date:1999

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Teaching Co
Place of Publication:Chantilly, Va
Language:eng
Publication Date:1999

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Compact discs.

Twenty-four lectures by Professor Willard Speigelman, Southern Methodist University.

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Description:1 online resource (12 audio discs (720 min.) :

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oclc:on1358648266
LC Classification:PN1042
Dewey Decimal:809.1

What to look (and listen) for in poems -- Memory and composition -- Poets look at the world -- Picturing nature -- Metaphor and metonymy I -- Metaphor and metonymy II -- Poetic tone -- The uses of sentiment -- The uses of irony -- Poetic forms and meters -- Sound effects -- Three 20th-century villanelles -- Free verse -- The English sonnet I -- The English sonnet II -- The enduring sonnet -- Poets thinking -- The greater Romantic lyric -- Poets thinking: some 20th century versions -- Portrayals of heroism -- Heroism: some 20th century versions -- Poems talking to (and for) works of art -- Echoes in poems -- Farewells and falling leaves.

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Audiobooks Compact discs for education Criticism, interpretation, etc Livres audio Poésie -- Explication de texte Poésie -- Histoire et critique Poetics Poétique Poetry Poetry -- Explication Poetry -- History and criticism Poetry -- Themes, motives