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Designed for introductory students, this text represents a fresh approach to the study of poetry. The elements of poetry, both formal and structural aspects, are presented in a simple, highly available language. The text incorporates the latest developments in criticism such as the feminist perspective in an unobtrusive way.
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AN INVITATION TO POETRY
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AN INVITATION TO POETRY JAY PARini Middlebury College
PRENTICE-HALL,
INC.,
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NEW JERSEY 07632
— Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Parini, Jay.
An
invitation to poetry.
Includes index. 1. English poetry. criticism.
3.
2.
English poetry
American poetry.
History and criticism. PR1 175.P3572 1987
ISBN 0-13-505546-6
5.
— History and
American poetry
Poetry.
I.
Title.
86-18662
808.1 (pbk.)
Editorial/production supervision and interior design: Hilda Tauber
Cover design: Bruce D. Kenselaar Cover photo by Eliot Porter Manufacturing buyer: Ray Keating
The acknowledgments on pages 319-322 constitute an extension of the copyright page.
© A
1987 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. Division of
Englewood
Simon
Cliffs,
All rights resented.
8c
Schuster
New Jersey 07632
No
part of
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To
ROBERT PACE —poet,
critic,
and
friend
Contents
A Word
to the
Teacher
ix
A Word
to the
Student
xi
1
What
Poetry?
2
Close Reading
9
3
The
Tone and Context
Is
1
Poet’s Voice:
*
4
Image and Idea
5
From Metaphor
6
Irony
7
The Poem
8
Dramatic Monologue
9
The
10
I
Lyric
Meter
12
Rhyme
27 to
Symbol
36
50 63
as Story
Poem
he Meditative
11
16
93
110
Poem
128
137
150
vii
Contents
viii
13
Poetic Shapes
14 Judging 15
and Forms
162 182
Quality in Poetry
Poets in Dialogue
200
ANTHOLOGY I
II
Matters of Life and Death
A Time
for Joy, a
Time
for Grief
III
War, and Rumors of War
IV
Aspects of Love
V The
213
230
241
261
Animals Are Coming
280
APPENDIX
A: Writing About Poetry
APPENDIX
B: Writing
Your
Index of Literary Terms Index of Poets, Poems,