Writing Poems
ISBN: 9780321474063 | 0321474066
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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This renowned guide to writing poetry offers comprehensive coverage of the creative process and the technical aspects of writing poetry. For poets/teachers who embrace a writing text as a companion to the larger conversation that happens in the classroom, nothing measures up to Writing Poems: 1) to introduce to the beginning student poetrys traditions, discipline and (hard-won) rewards, and 2) to guide more experienced poets through the deep oceans of making and remaking poems. Filled with practical advice, this text enlivens students' understa... MORE
| Preface: To The Teacher | |
| Starting Out: An Introduction? | |
| "Sweater Weather: A Love Song to Language," | |
| Word Magic Diction? | |
| "Those Winter Sundays," | |
| Syntax? | |
| "Barbed Wire," | |
| Pruning and Weeding? | |
| "Dulce et Decorum Est," | |
| "In a Station of the Metro," | |
| Clarity, Obscurity and Ambiguity? | ... MORE|
| "Gubbinal," | |
| Questions and Suggestions? | |
| Poems to Consider "Famous," | |
| "Home is so Sad," | |
| "Abstraction," | |
| "The Way Things Work," | |
| "Night in Iowa," | |
| "Bent to the Earth," | |
| "Realism," | |
| "Dolor," | |
| Form | |
| Verse | |
| Line? | |
| "Metaphors of a Magnifico," | |
| Form? | |
| "A Noiseless Patient Spider," | |
| "The Racer's Widow," | |
| "Letter in July," | |
| Questions and Suggestions? | |
| Poems to Consider | |
| "Traveling through the Dark," | |
| "Balance," | |
| "In the Museum of Your Last Day," | |
| "Unconditional Election," | |
| "Storm Window," | |
| "Thrall," | |
| "A Grave," | |
| "Off-Season at the Edge of the World," | |
| Making the Line | |
| (I) Syllable-Stress Meter | |
| Rhythm | |
| The Lengths of Metrical Lines | |
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