Contents: Studying Poetry
1. Performing Poetry
About this Book
Getting Started
Favourite Poems - A Class Survey
Poem Readings
Limericks
Thinking about sound
Guided Presentations
Gutter Press, Paul Dehn
Misunderstanding and Muzac, Dennis O'Driscoll
Your Own Presentation
Audience response sheet
Radical Readings
The Soldier, Rupert Brooke
2. What is Poetry?
What is Poetry?
Untitled Poems
Poetic Reading: What does the reader do?
Guiding the Reader: What does the text do?
Charges and Payment, Kim Poulton
'Finding' a poem - poetry in everyday life
Borrowed language
This Letter's to Say, Raymond Wilson
Conclusion: poetry as an effect of reading?
Context and use
To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvell
Exploring Uses
A Poetry Table
Poetry Projects
3. Words and Meanings
Basic Ingredients - sounds and meanings
Poem Comparisons
First Frost, Andrei Voznesensky
First Ice, Andrei Voznesensky
A Reader's Response
Reading First Frost, Greg Allan
Changing Poems - reading as writing
Reading Words
Mushrooms, Sylvia Plath
Reading Verses
The Earth Lover, Katherine Susannah Pritchard
Poems Without Words?
The Affair, Alan Riddell
Write a Critique
To Paint the Portrait of a Bird, Jacques Prevert
How to Paint the Portrait of a Bird, Jacques Prevert
4. Forms and Functions
Beyond the Word
Making Comparisons: Metaphor
The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes
Patterns in Poetry
Untitled poems
Haiku poems
The Sonnet
Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130, Wlliam Shakespeare
My Country, Annette Ross
Free Verse
The Rainwalkers, Denise Levertov
Yuh Hear Bout? Valerie Bloom
Thanks, Gael Turnbull
'Famous First Drafts'
Anthem for Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen
The Tyger, William Blake
The Python Guide to Poetry
Famous First Drafts, Monty Python
5. Writing a Poetry Critique
Why Write a Critique?
Two Critiques
Seasons, Jessica Cameron
Essays: Greg Allan, John Ramsay
Model Critiques
Spring and Fall, Gerard Manly Hopkins
Essays: Tan, Faysal, Veronika, Kim
Writing a Critique: Step by Step
From the Lighthouse, Flora Podmore
Poems for Study
Mirror, Sylvia Plath
In an Artist's Studio, Christina Rossetti
Toads, Philip Larkin
The Horses, Edwin Muir
Elegy for Drowned Children, Bruce Dawe
I Poet, Jean 'Binta' Breeze
Suggestions for Writing
6. Theories and Practices
Theories of Poetry
The Classical View
from The Republic, Plato
from The Poetics, Aristotle
from Preface to Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson
The Romantic View
from Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, William Wordsworth
The New Critical View from The Intentional Fallacy, Wimsatt ∓ Beardsley
'Out, Out--' Robert Frost
The Post-structural View from The Death of the Author, Roland Barthes
China, Bob Perelman
Wordsworth's Sisters
An Argument with Wordsworth, Wendy Cope
Why Dorothy Wordsworth is Not as Famous As Her Brother, Lynne Peters
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