Perrine's Sound and Sense : An Introduction to Poetry

by Arp, Thomas R.

• ISBN13: 9781413030549
• ISBN10: 1413030548
• Edition: 12th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-25
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

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	p. 1
What Is Poetry?	p. 3
The Eagle	p. 5
Winter	p. 6
Dulce et Decorum Est	p. 7
Reviewing Chapter One	p. 10
Understanding and Evaluating Poetry	p. 11
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?	p. 12
The Whipping	p. 12
The last Night that She lived	p. 13
Ballad of Birmingham	p. 14
Kitchenette Building	p. 16
The Red Wheelbarrow	p. 17
Constantly risking absurdity	p. 17
Suicide's Note	p. 18
Terence, this is stupid stuff	p. 19
Ars Poetica	p. 21
Suggestions for Writing	p. 22
Reading the Poem	p. 24
The Man He Killed	p. 26
A Study of Reading Habits	p. 27
Is my team plowing	p. 30
Reviewing Chapter Two	p. 33
Break of Day	p. 33
There's been a Death, in the Opposite House	p. 34
When in Rome	p. 35
Animals Are Passing from Our Lives	p. 36
Question	p. 37
Mirror	p. 38
The Clod and the Pebble	p. 38
Ethics	p. 39
Storm Warnings	p. 40
Suggestions for Writing	p. 41
Denotation and Connotation	p. 42
There is no Frigate like a Book	p. 42
When my love swears that she is made of truth	p. 44
Pathedy of Manners	p. 45
Exercises	p. 47
Reviewing Chapter Three	p. 48
Naming of Parts	p. 48
Cross	p. 49
The world is too much with us	p. 50
Desert Places	p. 51
Let No Charitable Hope	p. 52
A Hymn to God the Father	p. 52
One Art	p. 53
35/10	p. 54
Suggestions for Writing	p. 55
Imagery	p. 56
Meeting at Night	p. 57
Parting at Morning	p. 58
Exercises	p. 59
Reviewing Chapter Four	p. 59
Spring	p. 59
The Widow's Lament in Springtime	p. 60
The Man with Night Sweats	p. 61
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain	p. 62
Living in Sin	p. 63
The Forge	p. 64
After Apple-Picking	p. 64
Those Winter Sundays	p. 66
An August Night	p. 67
The Snow Man	p. 67
To Autumn	p. 68
Suggestions for Writing	p. 69
Figurative Language I: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy	p. 70
Harlem	p. 71
Bereft	p. 72
It sifts from Leaden Sieves	p. 73
The Author to Her Book	p. 74
The Telephone	p. 76
Bright Star	p. 77
Exercise	p. 80
Reviewing Chapter Five	p. 81
Mind	p. 81
I taste a liquor never brewed	p. 82
Metaphors	p. 83
Toads	p. 83
Ghost of a Chance	p. 84
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	p. 85
To His Coy Mistress	p. 87
Introduction to Poetry	p. 88
Suggestions for Writing	p. 89
Figurative Language 2: Symbol, Allegory	p. 90
The Road Not Taken	p. 90
A Noiseless Patient Spider	p. 92
The Sick Rose	p. 93
Digging	p. 95
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	p. 98
Peace	p. 99
Exercises	p. 101
Reviewing Chapter Six	p. 101
The Writer	p. 102
Fire and Ice	p. 103
Up-Hill	p. 104
Harlem Hopscotch	p. 104
I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing	p. 105
Because I could not stop for Death	p. 106
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness	p. 107
Weighing the Dog	p. 109
Ulysses	p. 109
Suggestions for Writing	p. 112
Figurative Language 3: Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, Irony	p. 113
Much Madness is divinest Sense	p. 114
The Sun Rising	p. 115
Incident	p. 116
Barbie Doll	p. 118
The Chimney Sweeper	p. 120
Ozymandias	p. 121
Exercise	p. 122
Reviewing Chapter Seven	p. 123
Lady Luncheon Club	p. 123
Batter my heart, three-personed God	p. 124
Sorting Laundry	p. 125
The History Teacher	p. 127
Mid-Term Break	p. 128
A Considerable Speck	p. 129
The Unknown Citizen	p. 130
In the inner city	p. 131
My Last Duchess	p. 132
Suggestions for Writing	p. 134
Allusion	p. 135
"Out, Out-"	p. 136
From Macbeth ("She should have died hereafter")	p. 137
Reviewing Chapter Eight	p. 138
In Just-	p. 139
Yet Do I Marvel	p. 140
On His Blindness	p. 140
Miniver Cheevy	p. 141
My Son the Man	p. 142
Siren Song	p. 143
Journey of the Magi	p. 144
Leda and the Swan	p. 146
Suggestions for Writing	p. 146
Meaning and Idea	p. 148
Little Jack Horner	p. 148
Loveliest of Trees	p. 149
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	p. 150
Reviewing Chapter Nine	p. 152
The Rhodora: On Being Asked, Whence Is the Flower?	p. 152
Design	p. 153
I never saw a Moor	p. 154
"Faith" is a fine invention	p. 154
On the Sonnet	p. 155
Sonnet	p. 155
The Lamb	p. 156
The Tiger	p. 157
The Indifferent	p. 158
Love's Deity	p. 159
My Number	p. 160
I had heard it's a fight	p. 161
Suggestions for Writing	p. 161
Tone	p. 163
For a Lamb	p. 165
Apparently with no surprise	p. 165
Since there's no help	p. 167
Picnic, Lightning	p. 168
Reviewing Chapter Ten	p. 169
My mistress' eyes	p. 169
Crossing the Bar	p. 170
The Oxen	p. 171
One dignity delays for all	p. 172
'Twas warm-at first-like Us	p. 173
The Apparition	p. 173
The Flea	p. 174
Dover Beach	p. 176
Church Going	p. 177
Suggestions for Writing	p. 180
Musical Devices	p. 181
The Turtle	p. 182
That night when joy began	p. 184
The Waking	p. 185
God's Grandeur	p. 187
Exercise	p. 188
Reviewing Chapter Eleven	p. 189
Blow, blow, thou winter wind	p. 189
We Real Cool	p. 190
Woman Work	p. 191
Rite of Passage	p. 192
As imperceptibly as Grief	p. 193
Music Lessons	p. 194
Traveling through the dark	p. 194
Thistles	p. 195
Nothing Gold Can Stay	p. 196
Suggestions for Writing	p. 197
Rhythm and Meter	p. 198
Virtue	p. 203
Exercises	p. 212
Reviewing Chapter Twelve	p. 213
"Introduction" to Songs of Innocence	p. 213
Had I the Choice	p. 214
The Aim Was Song	p. 215
Stanzas	p. 216
Old Ladies' Home	p. 216
Africa	p. 217
To a Daughter Leaving Home	p. 218
A Blessing	p. 219
Porphyria's Lover	p. 220
Break, break, break	p. 222
Suggestions for Writing	p. 223
Sound and Meaning	p. 224
Pease Porridge Hot	p. 224
Eight O'Clock	p. 226
Sound and Sense	p. 227
I heard a Fly buzz-when I died	p. 231
Exercise	p. 233
Reviewing Chapter Thirteen	p. 235
Anthem for Doomed Youth	p. 235
Landcrab	p. 236
Tree at My Window	p. 237
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers	p. 238
At the round earth's imagined corners	p. 238
Blackberry Eating	p. 239
The Health-Food Diner	p. 240
The Dance	p. 241
Suggestions for Writing	p. 241
Pattern	p. 243
The Pulley	p. 244
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	p. 246
That time of year	p. 247
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night	p. 249
Exercise	p. 250
Reviewing Chapter Fourteen	p. 251
From Romeo and Juliet	p. 251
Death, be not proud	p. 252
The Sheaves	p. 253
The White City	p. 253
America	p. 254
We Wear the Mask	p. 255
Sonnenizio on a Line from Drayton	p. 255
Acquainted with the Night	p. 256
In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn	p. 257
Villanelle for an Anniversary	p. 258
The House on the Hill	p. 259
These are the days when Birds come back	p. 260
Delight in Disorder	p. 261
Still to be Neat	p. 262
Suggestions for Writing	p. 262
Evaluating Poetry I: Sentimental, Rhetorical, Didactic Verse	p. 263
Reviewing Chapter Fifteen	p. 266
God's Will for You and Me	p. 266
Pied Beauty	p. 266
A Poison Tree	p. 267
The Most Vital Thing in Life	p. 267
Lower New York: At Dawn	p. 268
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	p. 269
Pitcher	p. 269
The Old-Fashioned Pitcher	p. 270
Piano	p. 270
The Days Gone By	p. 271
The Engine	p. 271
I like to see it lap the Miles	p. 272
When I have fears that I may cease to be	p. 272
O Solitude!	p. 273
Suggestions for Writing	p. 273
Evaluating Poetry 2: Poetic Excellence	p. 275
The Canonization	p. 276
Ode on a Grecian Urn	p. 278
There's a certain Slant of light	p. 280
Home Burial	p. 281
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	p. 285
Sunday Morning	p. 290
The Weary Blues	p. 294
The Fish	p. 296
Diving into the Wreck	p. 298
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