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Perrine's Sound and Sense An Introduction to Poetry

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ISBN-10: 1428289704

ISBN-13: 9781428289703

Edition: 13th 2011

Authors: Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson

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List price: $99.95
Edition: 13th
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 12/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Thomas R. Arp received a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan (1954) and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to Stanford University. In 1955-1956, he produced educational television for the University of Michigan. He received an M.A. from Stanford University in 1960 and a Ph.D. from Stanford in 1962. He has taught at Bowdoin College, Princeton University, University of California at Berkeley, Hull University (England), and Southern Methodist University. Macmillan published his volume, THE FORM OF POETRY, in 1966, and he received a Fulbright lectureship at University of Bucharest (Romania) in 1969-1970. Arp joined Laurence Perrine in preparing revised editions of SOUND AND SENSE, STORY…    

The Elements of Poetry
What is Poetry?
"The Eagle."
"Winter."
"Dulce et Decorum Est."
Reviewing
Understanding and Evaluating Poetry
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day."
"The Whipping."
"The last Night that She lived."
"The Bean Eaters."
"Ballad of Birmingham."
"The Red Wheelbarrow."
"Constantly risking absurdity."
"Suicide's Note."
"Terence, this is stupid stuff."
"Loving in truth."
"Ars Poetica." Suggestions for Writing
Reading The Poem
"The Man He Killed."
"A Study of Reading Habits."
"Is my team plowing."
Reviewing
"Break of Day."
"There's been a Death, in the Opposite House."
"Hawk Roosting."
"When in Rome."
"Mirror."
"The Ruined Maid."
"Ethics."
"Storm Warnings."
Suggestions for Writing
Denotation and Connotation
"There is no Frigate like a Book."
"When my love swears that she is made of truth."
"Pathedy of Manners."
Exercises
Reviewing
"Naming of Part s."
"Cross."
"The world is too much with us."
"Desert Places."
"Spring in the Classroom."
"A Hymn to God the Father."
"One Art." Sharon Olds, "35/10."
"My Wife Reads the Paper at Breakfast on the Birthday of the Scottish Poet."
Suggestions for Writing
Imagery
"Meeting at Night."
"Part ing at Morning."
Exercises
Reviewing
Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spring."
"The Widow's Lament in Springtime."
"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain."
"Living in Sin."
"The Forge."
"After Apple-Picking."
"Those Winter Sundays."
"Shopping in Tuckahoe."
"An August Night."
"The Snow Man."
"To Autumn."
Suggestions for Writing
Figurative Language I Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy
"Harlem" (previously called "Dream Deferred")
Robert Frost, "Bereft."
"It sifts from Leaden Sieves."
"The Author to Her Book."
"Bright Star."
Exercise
Reviewing
"Mind."
"I taste a liquor never brewed."
"Metaphors."
"Toads."
"Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957."
"The Sloth."
"A Valediction Forbidding Mourning."
"To His Coy Mistress."
"Introduction to Poetry."
Suggestions for Writing
Figurative Language 2 Symbol, Allegory
"The Road Not Taken."
"A Noiseless Patient Spider."
"The Sick Rose."
"Digging."
"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time."
"Peace."
Exercises
Reviewing
"The Writer."
"Fire and Ice."
"Up-Hill."
Running on Empty."
"The Truro Bear."
"Because I could not stop for Death."
"Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness."
"Weighing the Dog."
"Ulysses."
Suggestions for Writing
Figurative Language 3 Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, Irony
"Much Madness is divinest Sense."
"The Sun Rising."
"Incident."
"Barbie Doll."
"The Chimney Sweeper."
"Ozymandias."
Exercise
Reviewing
"A slumber did my spirit seal."
"Batter my heart, three-personed God."
"Sorting Laundry."
"The History Teacher."
"Mid-Term Break."
"A Bitterness."
"The Unknown Citizen."
"in the inner city."
"My Last Duchess."
Suggestions for Writing
Allusion
"Out, Out --."
From Macbeth ("She should have died hereafter")
Reviewing
"Lilies."Mary Oliver "in Just-."
"On His Blindness."
"Miniver Cheevy."
"My Son the Man."
"Siren Song."
"Journey of the Magi."
"Leda and the Swan."
Suggestions for Writing
Meaning and Idea
Anonymous, "Little Jack Horner."
"Loveliest of Trees."
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."
Reviewing
"The Rhodora: On Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower?"
"Design."
"I never saw a Moor."
"'Faith' is a fine invention."
"O sweet spontaneous."
"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer."
"On the Sonnet."
"Sonnet."
"Southern History."
"Kentucky, 1833."
"The Lamb."
"The Tiger."
Suggestions for Writing
Tone
"To the Snake."
"A narrow Fellow in the Grass."
"Since there's no help."
"Picnic, Lightning."
Reviewing
"My mistress' eyes."
"Crossing the Bar."
"The Oxen."
"One dignity delays for all."
"'Twas warm - at first - like Us."
"The Apparition."
"The Flea."
"For a Lamb."
"The Rabbit."
"Dover Beach."
"Church Going."
Suggestions for Writing
Musical Devices
"The Turtle."
"That night when joy began."
"The Waking."
"God's Grandeur."
Exercise
Reviewing
"Blow, blow, thou winter wind."
"We Real Cool."
"Woman Work."
"Rite of Passage."
"As imperceptibly as Grief."
"Music Lessons."
"Traveling through the dark."
"Song (After Shakespeare)."
"Nothing Gold Can Stay."
Suggestions for Writing
Rhythm And Meter "Virtue."
Exercises
Reviewing
"Introduction" to Songs of Innocence
"Had I the Choice."
"The Aim Was Song."
Lord Byron, "Stanzas."
"Old Ladies' Home."
"Africa."
"To a Daughter Leaving Home."
"Porphyria's Lover."
"Break, break, break."
Suggestions for Writing
Sound and Meaning
Anonymous, "Pease Porridge Hot."
"Eight O'Clock."
"Sound and Sense."
"I heard a Fly buzz - when I died."
Exercise
Reviewing
"Anthem for Doomed Youth."
"Landcrab."
"Night and the Creation of Geography."
"The Sound of Night."
"Aunt Jennifer's Tigers."
"Blackberry Eating."
"Remembered Morning."
"The Dance."
Suggestions for Writing
Pattern
"The Pulley."
"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer."
"That time of year."
"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night."
Exercises
Reviewing
"From Romeo and Juliet."
"Death, be not proud."
"The Folly of Being Comforted."
"The White City."
"America."
"We Wear the Mask."
"Acquainted with the Night."
"Villanelle for an Anniversary."
"The House on the Hill."
"Delight in Disorder."
"Still to be neat."
Suggestions for Writing
Evaluating Poetry I: Sentimental, Rhetorical, Didactic Verse
Reviewing Chapter Fifteen
Anonymous, "God's Will for You and Me."
"Pied Beauty."
"A Poison Tree."
"The Most Vital Thing in Life."
"Lower New York: At Dawn."
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge."
"Piano."
"The Days Gone By."
"The Engine."
"I like to see it lap the Miles."
"When I have fears that I may cease to be."
"O Solitude!"
Suggestions for Writing
Evaluating Poetry 2: Poetic Excellence
"The Canonization."
"Ode on a Grecian Urn."
"There's a certain Slant of light."
"Home Burial."
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
"Sunday Morning."
"The Weary Blues."
"The Fish."
Featured Poets
"A Light exists in Spring."
"A narrow Fellow in the Grass."
"Apparently with no surprise."
"As imperceptibly as Grief."
"Because I could not stop for Death."
"'Faith' is a fine invention."
"I died for Beauty--but was scarce."
"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain."
"I heard a Fly buzz--when I died."
"I like a look of Agony."
"I like to see it lap the Miles."
"I never aw a Moor."
"I taste a liquor never brewed."
"It sifts from Leaden Sieves."
'Much Madness is divinest Sense."
"One dignity delays for all."
"The last Night that She lived."
"There is no Frigate like a Book."
"There's a certain Slant of light."
"There's been a Death, in the Opposite House."
"'Twas warm--at first--like Us."
"A Hymn to God the Father."
"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."
"At the round earth's imagined corners."
Batter my heart, three personed God."
Break of Day."
Death, be not proud."
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness."
Song: Go and catch a falling star."
The Apparition."
The Canonization."
The Flea."
The Good-Morrow."
The Indifferent."
The Sun Rising."
"Acquainted with the Night."
"After Apple-Picking."
"Bereft."
"Birches."
"Desert Places."
"Design."
"Fire and Ice."
"Home Burial."
"Mending Wall."
"Nothing Gold Can Stay."
"'Out, Out--.'"
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."
"The Aim Was Song."
"The Road Not Taken."
Contemporary Collection
"Introduction to Poetry."
"Oh, My God."
"Picnic, Lightning."
"Sonnet."
"The Golden Years."
"The History Teacher."
"Weighing the Dog."
"An August Night."
"Digging."
"Follower."
"Mid-Term Break."
"The Forge."
"Villanelle for an Anniversary."
"I Go Back to May 1937."
"My Son the Man."
"Rite of Passage."
"The Planned Child."
"The Victims." "35/10."
"A Bitterness."
"Lilies."
"Music Lessons."
"Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957."
"Spring in the Classroom."
"The Black Snake."
"The Rabbit.?
Writing About Poetry
Why Write about Literature?
For Whom Do You Write?
Two Basic Approaches
Explication
Analysis
Choosing a Topic
Papers That Focus on a Single Poem
Papers of Comparison and Contrast
Papers on a Number of Poems by a Single Author
Papers on a Number of Poems with Some Feature Other than Authorship in Common
Proving Your Point
Writing the Paper
Introducing Quotations (Q1-Q11)
Documentation
Textual Documentation (TD1-TD5)
Parenthetical Documentation (PD1-PD6)
Documentation by Works Cited
Documentation of Electronic Sources
Stance and Style (S1-S6)
Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems
Grammar (G1-G2)
Punctuation (P1-P5)
Usage (U1-U2)
Writing Samples
Explication: "A Study of Reading Habits."
Analysis: Diction in "Pathedy of Manners.?
Poems for Further Reading
"Sonnenizio on a Line from Drayton."
"The Miser."
"Mus?e des Beaux Arts."
"Main Character."
"On Her Loving Two Equally."
"On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High."
"Manners."
"a song in the front yard."
"Grief."
"Witness."
"good times."
"Kubla Khan."
"The Golden Years."
"Oh, My God!" Stephen Crane
"War Is Kind."
"Buffalo Bill's defunct."
"the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls."
"Spring is like a perhaps hand."
"A Light exists in Spring."
"Apparently with no surprise."
"I died for Beauty-but was scarce."
"I like a look of Agony."
"At the round earth's imagined corners."
"The Good-Morrow."
"The Indifferent."
"Song: Go and catch a falling star."
"Persephone, Falling."
"Sympathy."
"Christ climbed down."
"The Colonel."
"Birches."
"Mending Wall."
"A Supermarket in California."
"From the Wave."
"Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins."
"'Ah, are you digging on my grave?'"
"Channel Firing."
"The Subalterns."
"Follower."
"Love."
"To an Athlete Dying Young."
"Aunt Sue's Stories."
"Mother to Son."
"Negro Servant."
"Theme for English B."
"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner."
"Oh, that joy so soon should waste."
"To Celia."
"Warning."
"La Belle Dame sans Merci."
"Ode to a Nightingale."
"Aubade."
"Black Mother Woman."
"Silence."
"Immigrants."
"I Go Back to May 1937."
"The Planned Child."
"The Victims."
"The Black Snake."
"R?sum?."
"I am learning to abandon the world."
"Sentimental Poem."
"A Work of Artifice."
"Mad Girl's Love Song."
"Spinster."
"Wuthering Heights."
"Salutation."
"Poetry: 1."
"The Mill."
"Mr Flood's Part y."
"Richard Cory."
"I knew a woman."
"My Papa's Waltz."
"Song."
"Letter from an Institution."
"Young."
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds."
"Stick Figure."
"Evening Walk."
"Grayheaded Schoolchildren."
"Raptures."
"Not Waving but Drowning."
"Small Town with One Road."
"One day I wrote her name upon the strand."
"Anecdote of the Jar."
"The Death of a Soldier."
"Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock."
"The Oak."
"Fern Hill."
"Ex-Basketball Player."
"In Bed with a Book."
"Return to the Swamp."
"A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim."
"To a Stranger."
"Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand."
"Spring and All."
"I wandered lonely as a cloud."
"My heart leaps up when I behold."
"The Solitary Reaper."
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree."
"Sailing to Byzantium."
"The Second Coming."
"The Wild Swans at Coole."
Glossary and Index of Literary Terms