How to read (and write about) poetry

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How to read (and write about) poetry

Susan Holbrook

Broadview press, c2022

2nd ed.

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Issued also in electronic formats

Contents of Works

  • Introduction: What makes poetry poetry and why are we so afraid of it?
  • Poem discussion one: Sonnet 130, by William Shakespeare
  • Poem discussion two: Harlem dancer, by Claude McKay
  • Poem discussion three: I being born a woman and distressed, by Edna St Vincent Millay
  • Poem discussion four: The dance, by William Carlos Williams
  • Poem discussion five: Ode on a grecian urn, by John Keats
  • Poem discussion six: The tyger, by William Blake
  • Poem discussion seven: r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r, by EE Cummings
  • Poem discuttion eight: Daddy, by Sylvia Plath
  • Poem discussion nine: kitchenette building, by Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Pome discussion ten: The three emilys, by Dorothy Livesay
  • A brief guide to meter
  • How to write about poetry
  • Glossary of poetic terms

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