Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing PoetryAtria Books, 1999 M04 8 - 320 páginas From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder. Full of fresh and exciting insights, Making Your Own Days illuminates the somewhat mysterious subject of poetry for those who read it and for those who write it—as well as for those who would like to read and write it better. By treating poetry not as a special use of language but as a distinct language—unlike the one used in prose and conversation—Koch clarifies the nature of poetic inspiration, how poems are written and revised, and what happens to the heart and mind while reading a poem. Koch also provides a rich anthology of more than ninety works from poets past and present. Lyric poems, excerpts from long poems and poetic plays, poems in English, and poems in translation from Homer and Sappho to Lorca, Snyder, and Ashbery; each selection is accompanied by an explanatory note designed to complement and clarify the text and to put pleasure back into the experience of poetry. |
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... ordinary language it says nothing , because nothing it says can possibly be true . To someone led by its music to read it as poetry , it says a lot : blood is power to the living , as money is - one spends it till one dies - one has a ...
... ordinary language it says nothing , because nothing it says can possibly be true . To someone led by its music to read it as poetry , it says a lot : blood is power to the living , as money is - one spends it till one dies - one has a ...
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... ordinary particulars . The verse has to have a tight organization of rhyme and meter both to suggest , and to hold in , the tension and excitement . " I saw the sky last night " would not get past Yeats's standards for more than a ...
... ordinary particulars . The verse has to have a tight organization of rhyme and meter both to suggest , and to hold in , the tension and excitement . " I saw the sky last night " would not get past Yeats's standards for more than a ...
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... ordinary poetic point of view , seemed impossible . As grand as long narrative poems may be , they have been out of fashion for hundreds of years . In ancient Greece and Rome , as in Renaissance Europe , one great thing a writer might ...
... ordinary poetic point of view , seemed impossible . As grand as long narrative poems may be , they have been out of fashion for hundreds of years . In ancient Greece and Rome , as in Renaissance Europe , one great thing a writer might ...
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The Two Languages | 19 |
Music | 27 |
Repetition and Rhythm | 28 |
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Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry Kenneth Koch Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
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