To read a poem
Begins the study of poetry by examining whole poems, emphasizing the goal of reading is not the analysis of parts but the understanding of wholes. This book helps students read poetry with intelligence, gusto, and discrimination.
Print Book, English, ©1992
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Fort Worth, ©1992
xx, 411 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
9780030555398, 0030555396
222838900
1. Good Poems. 2. Poems are Made of Words. 3. Images. 4. Figures of Speech, Especially Metaphors. 5. Tone, with a Note on Intentions. 6. Symbols and Allusions. 7. The Sound of Poems. 8. Meter and Rhyme. 9. Forms and Types of Poetry. 10. Versions of the Same. 11. Five Poets. 12. A Gathering of Poems.
Revised edition of: To read a poetry. 1982
Includes index