Poetry

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Quickly equips readers with the strategies to understand and deepen their engagement with individual poemsPraise for the first edition: 'Wide-ranging, provocative, and thorough, Strachan and Terry provide the student with all the tools necessary for the study of poetry. I can think of no other volume that offers the reader so much in so few pages. This is the text of choice for all students and teachers of the subject.'Duncan Wu, University of Glasgow Based on their extensive teaching experience, the authors provide a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry using practical examples throughout. o Packed full of examples, from the work of Shakespeare to Edwin Morgan and from Sylvia Plath to John Agardo Detailed index of poets, works, terms, forms & conceptso Full glossary of poetic terms, from /acatalectic/ to /wrenched accent/, with cross-references and page references of examplesNew for this edition:o End-of-chapter exercises and follow-up research taskso New readings of modern women's poetryo Section on How to Write Poetry with exerciseso Suggestions for further reading - both books and websites

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface to the second edition (p. viii)
• Acknowledgements (p. ix)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• 1 The key words of poetry (p. 7)
• 1.1 What is poetry? (p. 8)
• 1.2 The key words of English poetic history (p. 13)
• 1.3 Exercises (p. 20)
• 2 The shape of poetry (p. 23)
• 2.1 The aesthetics of print (p. 23)
• 2.2 Pictograms and concrete poems (p. 24)
• 2.3 Visible but unreadable (p. 28)
• 2.4 Layout and punctuation (p. 30)
• 2.5 The poetic stanza and stanzaic form (p. 33)
• 2.6 Exercises (p. 44)
• 3 The sound of poetry (p. 47)
• 3.1 Poetic sound effects: an overview (p. 47)
• 3.2 Onomatopoeia (p. 51)
• 3.3 Sound-patterning (p. 54)
• 3.4 Rhyme (p. 56)
• 3.5 The 'orthodox' rhyme (p. 59)
• 3.6 Some 'unorthodox' rhymes (p. 60)
• 3.7 Some indeterminacies of rhyme (p. 65)
• 3.8 Rhyme and meaning (p. 67)
• 3.9 Exercises (p. 69)
• 4 Metre and rhythm (p. 72)
• 4.1 Complexities in the study of metre (p. 73)
• 4.2 The key metrical units (p. 74)
• 4.3 Metrical regularity and variance (p. 77)
• 4.4 'Missing' and 'extra' syllables (p. 79)
• 4.5 Feet (p. 80)
• 4.6 Iambic metre (p. 80)
• 4.7 Trochaic metre (p. 88)
• 4.8 Dactylic metre (p. 92)
• 4.9 Anapaestic metre (p. 94)
• 4.10 Occasional feet (p. 95)
• 4.11 Metrical verse lines (p. 97)
• 4.12 Free verse (p. 104)
• 4.13 Exercises (p. 108)
• 5 Comparisons and associations (p. 111)
• 5.1 Literal v. figurative (p. 111)
• 5.2 Metaphor and simile (p. 112)
• 5.3 Metonymy and synecdoche (p. 115)
• 5.4 Tenor, vehicle and ground (p. 118)
• 5.5 Conceits and extended similes (p. 123)
• 5.6 Dead and dying metaphors (p. 127)
• 5.7 Riddle poems (p. 132)
• 5.8 Exercises (p. 134)
• 6 The words of poetry (p. 137)
• 6.1 Linguistic diversity (p. 137)
• 6.2 Poetic diction (p. 140)
• 6.3 Poetry of the everyday language (p. 145)
• 6.4 Creating your own language (p. 147)
• 6.5 Diction and argots (p. 149)
• 6.6 Poems about language (p. 153)
• 6.7 Poetic intertextuality (p. 156)
• 6.8 Forms of allusion (p. 159)
• 6.9 Creative quotation and poetic imitation (p. 164)
• 6.10 The Queen's (and other people's) English (p. 168)
• 6.11 Exercises (p. 172)
• 7 Writing poetry (p. 174)
• 7.1 Why write poetry? (p. 175)
• 7.2 Write a poem (p. 180)
• 7.3 Feedback on your poetry: creative writing classes, poetry workshops and writers' groups (p. 183)
• 7.4 Publishing your poetry (p. 186)
• 7.5 Poets on poetry (p. 189)
• 7.6 Forty practical tips on writing poetry (p. 194)
• 7.7 Exercises (p. 198)
• A glossary of poetical terms (p. 201)
• Metre exercise: answers (p. 227)
• Further reading (p. 232)
• Index (p. 236)