The art of poetry : how to read a poem
"A step-by-step introduction to poetic form, The Art of Poetry moves progressively from smaller units such as the word, line, and image, to larger features such as verse forms and voice. In fourteen chapters, Wolosky explores in depth how poetry does what it does while offering brilliant readings of some of the finest lyric poetry in the English and American traditions. Both readers new to poetry and poetry veterans will be moved and enlightened as Wolosky interprets work by William Shakespeare, John Donne, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, and others. The book includes a superb two-chapter discussion of the sonnet's form and history, and represents the first poetry guide to introduce gender as a basic element of analysis."--Jacket
poetry
xi, 226 pages ; 22 cm
9780195138702, 9780199707836, 9786611515164, 9780195371185, 0195138708, 0199707839, 661151516X, 0195371186
44516757
Preface
Word choice
Syntax and the poetic line
Images : simile and metaphor
Metaphor and the sonnet
The sonnet
Poetic conventions
More verse forms
Personification
Poetic voice
Gender and poetic voice
Poetic rhythm : metric
Poetic rhythm : sound and rhyme
Rhetoric : more tropes
Incomplete figures and the art of reading
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliographical backgrounds
Index of poems
Index of poets
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