Sign-In
Cart
Unlocking the Poem: A Guide to Discovering Meaning through Understanding and Analysis
Paperback
General ReferencePoetry CriticismTest Prep
Publisher Price: $16.00
ISBN13: 9781948641203
Publisher: Sherpa Learning, LLC
Published: Apr 1 2020
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The limited number of poetry resources for high school students all present their subjects by way of techniques: poems are included in chapters focused on metaphor, tone, or sound. But no great poem was ever written to illustrate a lesson on metaphor.
The way to understand a poem is to get to know it as itself, rather than as an example of poetic technique. Unlocking the Poem treats each poem as an independent literary event, just as it was written. Discussion of literary elements begins only after the student has fully explored the poem with his or her eyes, ears, feelings, and mind.
The primary interpretive strategy of repeated reading and patient questioning--rather than the enumeration and analysis of literary elements--removes much of the mystification that a reliance on terminology imposes on the study of poems. Unlocking the Poem uses a friendly approach that recognizes our reasons for reading poems: to see things in a new way, to feel things keenly and freshly.
Unlocking the Poem provides a path toward understanding that any motivated student can follow. Using this book, students will develop the ability to connect with any poem they may encounter by following a simple progression of steps. Featured poems by William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Claude McKay, Philip Larkin, and Elizabeth Bishop.
Also in
Poetry Criticism
The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
Laux, Dorianne
Addonizio, Kim
Paperback
Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet''
Searls, Damion
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Kappus, Franz Xaver
Hardcover
Faeries, Sprites & Malevolent Spirits: An Anthology of Classic Poetry & Stories
Thorne, Aurora
Hardcover
Poem a Day: 366 Poems, Old and New - One for Each Day of the Year
Albery, Nicolas
McCosker, Karen
Paperback
Economy of the Unlost: (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan) (Nobel Prize Winner)
Carson, Anne
Paperback
Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag: And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era
Field, Edward
Rosebrough, Amy L.
Paperback
Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-92 Editions: A Library of America Paperback Classic
Whitman, Walt
Paperback
Three Simple Lines: A Writer's Pilgrimage Into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku
Goldberg, Natalie
Hardcover
Poetry from Spaceship Earth: Empire and Ecology in Post-1945 American Poetry
Rahimtoola, Samia
Paperback
A Literary Dog for Every Day of the Year: Mischievous Mutts and Faithful Friends - Literature's Waggiest Tales
Richardson, Tara
Hardcover