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Bezig met laden... How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse (editie 2018)door Thomas C Foster (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkHow to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse door Thomas C. Foster
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I read this book to prepare myself to lead a book group discussion on some poems we elected to read. It was very readable, informative, and humorous in all the right places. If you are venturing into reading poetry and don't know beans about it, this is the book for you. ( ) This is the book I wanted and needed to read, though I did not know that when I found it on a best-of list and put a hold on it at our library. I committed to reading poetry more than 2 years ago now but I had not had any type of formal poetry education since a one semester elective course in my junior year at university. Prior to that, there were a couple of weeks of learning to read and write poetry in 7th grade english where I famously wrote a haiku about love that my teacher thought was outstanding. Perhaps it was this that has led me all these years later to want to really learn and read more. Professor Foster's book is entertaining and humorous but it was also serious and I learned topics over again that I had forgotten and I learned much that was new to me. Now that I have finished, I feel less intimidated by the poems I am reading and more aware of what a poem is and does. The two chapters that stood out for me were Chapter 5, The Long (or short) Gray Line about line length and line breaks and Chapter 6, Our Word is Our Bond which is about word choice or poetic diction. I think more than any areas of this book, these two chapters gave me real insight into the construction of and how to read poetry. I would have liked that he spend more time on modernist poetry (there is a chapter at the end but not enough, in my opinion) but there were still examples spread throughout the book that he used to illustrate the topics of each of his chapters. There were also many examples of poems and poetry books by authors I have not read and have put on my TBR list for the future including William Carlos Williams' Sour Grapes, Danusha Lameris' The Moons of August, Marianne Moore's poetry, and Christina Rossetii's poetry. This is just an excellent little book for a novice poetry reader like myself. A 5-star seal of approval from me. This was a great companion for anyone interested in expanding their sense of what poetry is, how it is utilized, and how to make your own better. Foster is a great writer, and he provides many examples to illustrate his points and dive further into the sea that is his subject matter. It was well organized, original, witty, and worthwhile in both its presentation and its application. Overall, it was a great read and I'm eager to read the other two books in his series. 5 stars! geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry like a professor that unlocks the keys to enjoying works from Lord Byron to the Beatles. No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree--a line of poets extending back to a time before recorded history--and a ubiquitous presence in virtually all cultures, poetry is also revered for its great beauty and the powerful emotions it evokes. But the form has also instilled trepidation in its many admirers mainly because of a lack of familiarity and knowledge. Poetry demands more from readers--intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually--than other literary forms. Most of us started out loving poetry because it filled our beloved children's books from Dr. Seuss to Robert Louis Stevenson. Eventually, our reading shifted to prose and later when we encountered poetry again, we had no recent experience to make it feel familiar. But reading poetry doesn't need to be so overwhelming. In an entertaining and engaging voice, Thomas C. Foster shows readers how to overcome their fear of poetry and learn to enjoy it once more. From classic poets such as Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Edna St. Vincent Millay to later poets such as E.E. Cummings, Billy Collins, and Seamus Heaney, How to Read Poetry Like a Professor examines a wide array of poems and teaches readers: 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! With How to Read Poetry Like a Professor, readers can rediscover poetry and reap its many rewards. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)808.1Literature By Topic Rhetoric and anthologies Rhetoric of poetryLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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