How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor offers an accessible guide to understanding verse. Thomas C. Foster examines meter, diction, rhyme, structure, and other poetic elements, showing readers how form supports meaning and how language creates echoes, music, and connections between poems and songs.
About This Book
Learn how to read poetry for both its primary meaning and its deeper implications.
Explore essential elements of verse, including meter, diction, rhyme, line structure, length, order, and regularity.
See how these technical features can work as allies, helping readers understand rather than resist a poem.
Develop an ear for the echoes summoned by poetic language and discover the music within poems—and the poetry within songs.
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