{"product_id":"how-to-read-a-poem-isbn-9780452010338","title":"How to Read a Poem","description":"An introductory text that is both an anthology of over 200 poems and a comprehensive exploration of the form. Over 100 poets featured; those most widely represented include\u003cb\u003e Blake, Byron, cummings, Dickinson, Donne, Alan Dugan, Frost, Louise Gluck, George Herbert, Keats, Pope, Pound, Shakespeare, Wordsworth\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eYeats\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. What Poetry Means\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoems Supplementary to Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Metaphor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoems Supplementary to Chapter 2\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. How Poetry Works: Approaches and Techniques\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Poetic Music\u003cbr\u003e2. Contrast; Balance\u003cbr\u003e3. Precision\u003cbr\u003e4. Obscurity\u003cbr\u003ePoems Supplementary to Chapter 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat Poetry Uses: Devices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Rhyme\u003cbr\u003e2. Alliteration\u003cbr\u003e3. Repetition; Refrain\u003cbr\u003e4. Allusion; Acrostics\u003cbr\u003e5. Imitation; Parody\u003cbr\u003e6. Onomatopoeia\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Shapes and Structures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Couplets; Quatrains\u003cbr\u003e2. Ballads and Hymns\u003cbr\u003e3. Sonnets (Italian, Shakespearian, Spenserian)\u003cbr\u003e4. Songs (Lyrics)\u003cbr\u003e5. Dialogues; Monologues\u003cbr\u003e6. Other Traditional Forms\u003cbr\u003e7. Free Forms\u003cbr\u003e8. Concrete Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Metrics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Index\u003cbr\u003ePoem Index\u003cbr\u003eSubject Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBurton Raffel \u003c\/b\u003ehas taught English, Classics, and Comparative Literature at universities in the United States, Israel, and Canada. His books include translations of \u003ci\u003eBeowulf, Horace: Odes, Epodes, Epistles, Satires, The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar, From the Vietnamese, Ten Centuries of Poetry, The Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich, Mandelstram\u003c\/i\u003e (with Alla Burago), and \u003ci\u003ePoems From the Old English \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Annotated Milton\u003c\/i\u003e; several critical studies,\u003ci\u003e Introduction to Poetry, How to Read a Poem, The Development of Modern Indonesian Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Forked Tounge: A Study of the Translation Process\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eMia Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, a volume of his own poetry. Mr. Raffel practiced law on Wall Street and taught in the Ford Foundation’s English Language Teacher Training Project in Indonesia.","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303232590053,"sku":"NP9780452010338","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452010338.jpg?v=1767729451","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/how-to-read-a-poem-isbn-9780452010338","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}