How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse

Authors: Foster, Thomas C

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Brand: Harper Perennial

ASIN: 006211378X (US)

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  • How to read a poem to understand its primary meaning.
  • The different technical elements of poetry such as meter, diction, rhyme, line structures, length, order, regularity, and how to learn to see these elements as allies rather than adversaries.
  • How to listen for a poem’s secondary meaning by paying attention to the echoes that the language of poetry summons up.
  • How to hear the music in poems—and the poetry in songs!

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