Perrine's Sound and Sense

by Arp, Thomas R.

• ISBN13: 9781413030815
• ISBN10: 1413030815
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-03
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

There's no better way for you to learn about poetry and understand its elements than with PERRINE'S SOUND AND SENSE. Both a concise introduction to poetry and an anthology, this classic best-seller succinctly covers the basics of poetry with chapters on evaluating poetry, exemplary poetry selections that you'll enjoy reading, and exercises that help you understand each selection. Every poem included in this collection is not only a perfect illustration of the poetic concept at hand, but a remarkable work in its own right.

Table of Contents

The Elements of Poetry

What Is Poetry?

The Eagle

Winter

Dulce et Decorum Est

Shall I compare thee to a summer''s day?

The Whipping

The last Night that She lived

Ballad of Birmingham

Kitchenette Building

The Red Wheelbarrow

Suicide''s Note

Terence

this is stupid stuff

Poetry:

Ars Poetica

Suggestions for Writing

Reading the Poem

The Man He Killed

A Study of Reading Habit

Is my team plowing

General Exercises for Analysis and Evaluation

Break of Day

There''s been a Death

in the Opposite House

When in Rome

Mirror

The Clod and the Pebble

Facing It

Eros Turannos

Storm Warnings

Suggestions for Writing

Denotation and Connotation

There is no Frigate like a Book

When my love swears that she is made of truth

Pathedy of Manners

Exercises

Naming of Parts

Cross

The world is too much with us

"I Am in Danger--Sir--"

Desert Places

A Hymn to God the Father

One Art

Suggestions for Writing

Imagery

Meeting at Night

Parting at Morning

Exercises

Spring

The Widow''s Lament in Springtime

I felt a Funeral

in my Brain

Living in Sin

The Forge

After Apple-Picking

Those Winter Sundays

Reapers

Lord Byron

The Destruction of Sennacherib

To Autumn

Sugggestions for Writing

Figurative Language 1: Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Apostrophe

Metonymy

The Guitarist Tunes Up

The Hound

Bereft

It sifts from Leaden Sieves

Song of the Powers

Bright Star

Exercise

Mind

I taste a liquor never brewed

Metaphors

Toads

Ghost of a Chance

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

To His Coy Mistress

Dream Deferred

Introduction to Poetry

Suggestions for Writing

Figurative Language 2: Symbol

Allegory

The Road Not Taken

A Noiseless Patient Spider

The Sick Rose

Digging

To the Virgins

Peace

Exercises

Fire and Ice

Ulysses

Curiosity

The Writer

Power

Because I could not stop for Death

Hymn to God My God

in My Sickness

Suggestions for Writing

Figurative Language 3: Paradox

Overstatement

Understatement

Irony

Much Madness is divinest Sense

The Sun Rising

Incident

Barbie Doll

The Chimney Sweeper

Ozymandias

Exercise

Batter my heart

three-personed God

Sorting Laundry

The History Teacher

A Considerable Speck

The Unknown Citizen

American Holiday

in the inner city

Afterward

My Last Duchess

Suggestions for Writing

Allusion

"Out

Out--"

From Macbeth ("She should have died hereafter"). e. e. cummings

in Just-Yet Do I Marve.l

On H

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