The Art of Poetry : How to Read a Poem

Preface
1. Word Choice
2. Syntax and the Poetic Line
3. Images: Simile and Metaphor
4. Metaphor and the Sonnet
5. The Sonnet
6. Poetic Conventions
7. More Verse Forms
8. Personification
9. Poetic Voice
10. Gender and Poetic Voice
11. Poetic Rhythm: Metric
12. Poetic Rhythm: Sound and Rhyme
13. Rhetoric: More Tropes
14. Incomplete Figures and the Art of Reading
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliographical Backgrounds
Index of Poems
Index of Poets
Index of Terms and Topics

Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry LIT014000