| Description |
221 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Hayden series in literature |
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Hayden series in literature.
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| Contents |
Preface -- I. The poem as subject -- The subject of a poem may be anything whatever -- The subject of a poem is not the same thing as its theme -- The meaning of a poem is not the same thing as its subject or its theme -- II. The poem as a dramatic situation -- Every poem has a speaker -- The speaker of a poem speaks from a personal situation -- The speaker of a poem speaks to some kind of audience -- Every poem is characterized by a distinctive tone -- III. The poem as a pattern of rhythm and sound -- Rhythm -- Meter -- Sound -- IV. Devices of compression: the poet's shorthand -- Overstatement -- Understatement -- Irony and paradox -- Comparison -- V. Additional poems chronologically arranged -- The premodern period -- The modern period |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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English poetry.
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Poetics.
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| Author |
Mack, Maynard, 1909-2001, author
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| LC no. |
72089018 |
| ISBN |
0810455161 (paperback) |
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081045517X |
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