Poetry

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This text equips students with strategies to understand and deepen their engagement with individual poems. This edition contains: end-of-chapter exercises and research tasks; new readings of modern women's poetry; section on 'How to Write Poetry' with exercises; suggestions for further reading - both books and websites.

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Full title :Poetry / John Strachan and Richard Terry.

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Publication Date:©2011.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 246 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0748644075, 9780748644070, 0748644016, 9780748644018, 0748680799, 9780748680795
oclc:ocn769899334
LC Classification:PN1031
Dewey Decimal:808.1

Machine generated contents note: 1. The key words of poetry -- 1.1. What is poetry? -- 1.2. The key words of English poetic history -- 1.3. Exercises -- 2. The shape of poetry -- 2.1. The aesthetics of print -- 2.2. Pictograms and concrete poems -- 2.3. Visible but unreadable -- 2.4. Layout and punctuation -- 2.5. The poetic stanza and stanzaic form -- 2.6. Exercises -- 3. The sound of poetry -- 3.1. Poetic sound effects: an overview -- 3.2. Onomatopoeia -- 3.3. Sound-patterning -- 3.4. Rhyme -- 3.5. The orthodox' rhyme -- 3.6. Some unorthodox' rhymes -- 3.7. Some indeterminacies of rhyme -- 3.8. Rhyme and meaning -- 3.9. Exercises -- 4. Metre and rhythm -- 4.1.Complexities in the study of metre -- 4.2. The key metrical units -- 4.3. Metrical regularity and variance -- 4.4. Missing' and extra' syllables -- 4.5. Feet -- 4.6. Iambic metre -- 4.7. Trochaic metre -- 4.8. Dactylic metre -- 4.9. Anapaestic metre -- 4.10. Occasional feet -- 4.11. Metrical verse lines -- 4.12. Free verse -- 4.13. Exercises.

Contents note continued: 5.Comparisons and associations -- 5.1. Literal v. figurative -- 5.2. Metaphor and simile -- 5.3. Metonymy and synecdoche -- 5.4. Tenor, vehicle and ground -- …