Studying Poetry

by Moon, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780814148501
• ISBN10: 0814148506
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Natl Council of Teachers of english

Summary

Offers various activies and resources to enhance the enjoyment and understanding of poetry.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	x
Permissions	xi
Introduction: To the Teacher	xiv
Performing Poetry	1	(16)
About This Book	1	(1)
Getting Started	2	(1)
Favoritye Poems	2	(2)
Poetry Readings	4	(2)
Limericks	5	(1)
Thinking about Sound	6	(1)
Guided Presentations	7	(6)
``Gutter Press''	8	(4)
Paul Dehn
``Misunderstanding and Muzak''	12	(1)
Dennis O'Driscoll
Your Own Presentation	13	(1)
Audience Response Sheet	13	(1)
Radical Readings?	13	(4)
``The Soldier''	14	(3)
Rupert Brooke
What Is Poetry?	17	(20)
What Is Poetry?	17	(3)
Untitled Texts	18	(2)
Other Definitions	20	(2)
Poetic Reading	22	(1)
Poetic Reading Rules	22	(1)
Reading in a Poetic Way	22	(1)
Guiding the Reader	23	(3)
``Charges and Payment''	24	(2)
Kim Poulton
Finding a Poem	26	(1)
Borrowed Language	27	(1)
``This Letter's to Say''	27	(1)
Raymond Wilson
Poetry-Effects?	28	(1)
Activating Practices	28	(1)
Charting Poetry	29	(2)
Context and Use	31	(2)
``To His Coy Mistress''	32	(1)
Andrew Marvell
Exploring Uses	33	(2)
Poetry Projects	35	(2)
Worlds and Meanings	37	(28)
Basic Ingredients	37	(1)
Whose Meanings?	37	(4)
Poem Comparisons	41	(2)
``First Frost''	41	(1)
Andrei Voznesensky
``First Ice''	42	(1)
Andrei Voznesensky
Sound and Connotation	43	(3)
A Reader's Response	46	(6)
``Reading 'First Frost and 'First Ice'''	47	(5)
Greg Allan
Changing Poems	52	(1)
Reading Words	52	(2)
``Mushrooms''	53	(1)
Sylvia Plath
Reading Verses	54	(2)
``The Earth Lover''	55	(1)
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Poems without Words?	56	(4)
``The Affair''	57	(3)
Alan Riddell
Write a Comparison	60	(3)
``To Paint the Portrait of a Bird''	61	(1)
Jacques Prevert
``How to Paint the Portrait of a Bird''	62	(1)
Jacques Prevert
Planning Your Essay	63	(2)
Forms and Functions	65	(39)
Beyond the Word	65	(4)
``The Highwayman''	66	(3)
Alfred Noyes
Metaphor as Description	69	(6)
Patterns in Poetry	75	(3)
Untitled Poems	76	(2)
Looking at Form: Haiku	78	(4)
Haiku Poems	79	(3)
Looking at Form: The Sonnet	82	(7)
Sonnet 18	82	(4)
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130	86	(1)
William Shakespeare
``My Country''	87	(2)
Annette Ross
Looking at Form: Free Verse	89	(3)
``The Rainwalkers''	89	(1)
Denise Levertov
``The Frog'' (Anonymous)	90	(1)
``Thanks''	90	(2)
Gael Turnbull
Famous ``First Drafts''	92	(10)
``The Tyger''	92	(6)
William Blake
``Anthem for Doomed Youth''	98	(4)
Wilfred Owen
The Monty Python Guide to Poetry	102	(2)
Writing a Poetry Critique	104	(35)
Why Write a Critique?	104	(4)
``Seasons''	105	(1)
Jessica Cameron
Essays: Greg Allan, John Ramsay	105	(3)
Model Critiques	108	(7)
``Spring and Fall''	108	(1)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Essays: Tan, Faysal, Angela, Kim	109	(6)
Writing a Critique	115	(14)
``From the Lighthouse''	118	(11)
Flora Podmore
Poems for Study	129	(7)
``Mirror''	130	(1)
Sylvia Plath
``Elegy for Drowned Children''	131	(1)
Bruce Dawe
``Toads''	131	(1)
Philip Larkin
``The Horses''	132	(2)
Edwin Muir
``In an Artist's Studio''	134	(1)
Christina Rossetti
``Thinking about Heaven''	134	(1)
John Richmond
``I Poet''	135	(1)
Jean ``Binta'' Breeze
Suggestions for Reading the Poems	136	(3)
Theories and Practices	139	(24)
Theories of Poetry	139	(2)
The Classical View	141	(5)
From The Republic	142	(2)
Plato
From Poetics	144	(1)
Aristotle
From Preface to Shakespeare	145	(1)
Samuel Johnson
The Romantic View	146	(3)
From the Preface to Lyrical Ballads	147	(1)
William Wordsworth
``I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud''	148	(1)
William K. Wordsworth
The New Critical View	149	(5)
From ``The Intentional Fallacy''	150	(1)
William K. Wimsart
Monroe C. Beardsley
``Out, Out---	151	(3)
Robert Frost
A Poststructuralist View	154	(2)
From ``The Death of the Author''	155	(1)
Roland Barthes
``China''	156	(7)
Bob Perelman
``Wordsworth's Sisters?	158	(1)
``An Argument with Wodsworth''	158	(2)
Wendy Cope
``Why Dorothy Wordsworth Is Not as Famous as Her Brother''	160	(3)
Lynn Peters
Appendix: Answers to Selected Exercises	163	(4)
References	167	(3)
Index of First Lines	170	(2)
Index of Poems	172	(1)
Index of Poets	173	(2)
About the Author	175