How to read and understand poetry

by Spiegelman, Willard

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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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Title Statements

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

Summary

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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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1999

Publication Statements

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

Notes

Compact discs.

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

Statement of responsibility from container.

The Physical Object

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

Edition Identifiers

  • oclc:on1358649944
  • LC Classification:PN1042
  • Dewey Decimal:809.1

Table of Contents

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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