Poetry An Introduction

Name: Poetry An Introduction
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ISBN: 9780814797976

ISBN-10: 0814797970

ISBN-13: 9780814797976

Edition: 2001

Authors: John Strachan, Richard Terry

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For anyone who has ever wondered about the differences between metaphor and metonym or a trochee and a dactyl, this compact, well-organized handbook promises to be useful.-Library JournalPoetry: An Introduction is an accessible and clearly written introduction to the structural and methodological principles underpinning poetry and its study. It aims to equip the student, researcher, and general reader with a body of technical information that will sharpen and deepen their engagement with individual poems.Strachan and Terry provide a lively map through what might on first experience seem the most daunting aspects of poetry: poetic sound effects, rhythm and meter, the typographic display of…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 9.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Richard Terry is Reader in English at the University of Sunderland.

Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
The key words of poetry	p. 8
What is poetry?	p. 9
The key words of English poetic history	p. 14
The shape of poetry	p. 24
The aesthetics of print	p. 24
Pictograms and concrete poems	p. 25
Visible but unreadable	p. 29
Layout and punctuation	p. 32
The poetic stanza and stanzaic form	p. 35
The sound of poetry	p. 49
Poetic sound effects: an overview	p. 49
Onomatopoeia	p. 53
Sound/patterning	p. 57
Rhyme	p. 59
The 'orthodox' rhyme	p. 62
Some 'unorthodox' rhymes	p. 63
Some indeterminacies of rhyme	p. 69
Rhyme and meaning	p. 72
Metre and rhythm	p. 75
Complexities in the study of metre	p. 76
The key metrical units	p. 77
Metrical regularity and variance	p. 81
'Missing' and 'extra' syllables	p. 82
Feet	p. 84
Iambic metre	p. 84
Trochaic metre	p. 93
Dactylic metre	p. 98
Anapaestic metre	p. 99
Occasional feet	p. 101
Metrical verse lines	p. 102
Free verse	p. 111
Comparisons and associations	p. 115
Literal v. figurative	p. 115
Metaphor and simile	p. 116
Metonymy and synecdoche	p. 119
Tenor, vehicle and ground	p. 123
Conceits and extended similes	p. 128
Dead and dying metaphors	p. 133
Riddle poems	p. 138
The words of poetry	p. 142
Linguistic diversity	p. 142
Poetic diction	p. 146
Poetry of the everyday language	p. 151
Creating your own language	p. 153
Diction and argots	p. 156
Poems about language	p. 160
The Queen's (and other people's) English	p. 163
A glossary of poetical terms	p. 167
Index	p. 195
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