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.
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..
How to listen for a poem\'s secondary meaning by paying attention to the echoes that the language of Poetry summons up.
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.
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.
Vincent Millay to later poets such as E.
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From classic poets such as Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Edna St.
Foster shows readers how to overcome their fear of Poetry and learn to enjoy it once more.
In an entertaining and engaging voice, Thomas C.
But reading Poetry doesn\'t need to be so overwhelming.
Eventually, our reading shifted to prose and later when we encountered Poetry again, we had no recent experience to make it feel familiar.
Seuss to Robert Louis Stevenson.
Most of us started out loving Poetry because it filled our beloved children\'s books from Dr.
Poetry demands more from readers--intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually--than other literary forms.
But the form has also instilled trepidation in its many admirers mainly because of a lack of familiarity and knowledge.
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.
No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry.
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
