Name: Introduction to Poetry By X. J. Kennedy
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Introduction to Poetry by X. J. Kennedy

First published in 1966, this anthology aims to helps students read poems closely, and provides a basic introduction to the elements of poetry. The book offers comprehensive coverage of different types of poetry, and discusses reading, analyzing and writing poetry.

Reading a poem - lyric poetry, dramatic poetry; listening to a voice - tone, the person in the poem, irony, for review and further study; words - literal meaning - what a poem says first, the value of a dictionary, word choice and word order, for review and further study; saying and suggesting; imagery about haiku; figures of speech - why speak figuratively?, metaphor and simile, other figures; song - singing and saying ballads; sound - sound as meaning, alliteration and assonance, rime, reading and hearing poems aloud; rhythm stresses and pauses - meter; closed form - formal patterns, the sonnets, epigrams; open forum visual poetry; symbol; myth and narrative - gender, for review and further study; alternatives - translations, parody; evaluating a poem - telling good from bad, knowing excellence; what is poetry? - anthology - poetry, criticism on poetry, lives of poets. Supplements: writing about literature beginning discovering and planning drafting and revising - the form of your finished paper, documenting your sources, keeping a journal; writing about a poem - explicating, analyzing, comparing and contrasting, how to quote a poem; critical approaches to literature.

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CIN0673522784G

ISBN 13

9780673522788

ISBN 10

0673522784

Title

Introduction to Poetry by X. J. Kennedy

Author

X. J. Kennedy

Condition

Used - Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Pearson Education Limited

Year published

1993-10-31

Number of pages

576

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N/A

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