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How Poems Work: Meanings, techniques and effects in 100 poems from Beowulf to the Iraq War (Paperback)
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How Poems Work: Meanings, techniques and effects in 100 poems from Beowulf to the Iraq War (Paperback)
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Readers of poetry are often told to leave poems alone - to learn
them by heart or to enjoy how they sound and leave it at that. This
is all very well, except for those readers who have to study poetry
at school or university. Or other readers who don't yet enjoy poems
because they are daunted by their seemingly impenetrable meanings
or inaccessible techniques.In this annotated anthology, Robert
Gullifer and Matthew Jenkinson demystify poetry while showing that
there are many good reasons to pick poems apart. From Beowulf to
the Iraq War, a millennium of poetry is presented to give readers a
sense of how poems have evolved since we first started writing them
down. Historical backgrounds, meanings, techniques and effects are
explained and analysed clearly and logically to help readers
understand what poets have been trying to say to us across the
centuries. At the same time, major themes that have recurred in
poetry are highlighted, so general readers, teachers and students
can navigate the poems as they wish: by time period, by technique,
or by theme.This book has been designed so it is useful to anyone
interested in learning about or teaching poetry, as well as those
revisiting poems and poets they may have already encountered. Those
poems and poets have been carefully selected to ensure that How
Poems Work: covers much of the existing poetic canon while
broadening it to include diverse historically important poets who
have been previously overlooked, or to include less well-known
poems by already canonical poets.includes poems that are
technically interesting, to allow the kind of analysis expected in
classrooms and examinations. appeals to a wide audience across the
English-speaking world by including British and American poems
alongside those from other cultures.
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