Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry - Brossura

Mason, David; Nims, John Frederick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0072819596 ISBN 13: 9780072819595

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2005

Riassunto

WESTERN WIND is an introduction to the elements of craft that make poetry sing, a superior anthology of classic and contemporary poetry, and a guide for students to poetics, writing about poetry, and critical theory. In this text, two well respected poets bring their love of the craft of poetry into a book that teaches as well as inspires. The text also includes exercises, chapter summaries, games, diagrams, illustrations, and 4-color reproductions of great works of art.

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L'autore:

David Mason was born and raised in Bellingham, Washington, and received degrees from The Colorado College and the University of Rochester. He spent most of his twenties traveling and working as a manual laborer, with a brief stint working for a film company. He has taught at Minnesota State University, Moorhead, and is now on the faculty of The Colorado College. He lives in the mountains outside Colorado Springs. Masons two prize-winning books of poems are The Buried Houses (1991) and The Country I Remember (1996). With Mark Jarman he co-edited Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism (1996; reprinted 1998) and with the late John Frederick Nims Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (2000). His collection of literary essays, The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry, appeared in 2000. Mason is also a memoirist, fiction writer and frequent book reviewer.

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PREFACE

Before We Begin

Part One: The Senses

1. WHERE EXPERIENCE STARTS: The Image

The Role of the Senses

*Jim Moore The Same Life

Anonymous Western Wind

Archibald Macleish Eleven

Sappho There's A Man

T.S. Eliot Preludes

Anonymous Brief Autumnal

The Specific Image

Ezra Pound In A Station Of The Metro Alba ("As cool as the pale wet leaves...")

Anthony Hecht The End Of The Weekend

Anonymous Sir Patrick Spens

Exercises and Diversions

Brewester Ghiselin Rattler, Alert

Sappho Leaving Crete, Come Visit Again

Essay and Poem

*Jim Moore Haiku/Touch

2. WHAT'S IT LIKE? Simile, Metaphor and Other Figures

Simile and Metaphor

Robinson Jeffers The Purse-Seine

Robert Frost The Silken Tent

Emily Dickinson My Life Had Stood--A Loaded Gun

Linda Pastan Returning

Margaret Atwood Habitation

William Butler Yeats No Second Troy

Robert Frost A Patch Of Old Snow

*Al Young Up Vernon's Alley

Helen Chasin City Pigeons

Analogy

Walter de la Mare All But Blind

Synesthesia

Allusion

Alexander Pope Intended For Sir Isaac Newton

*Michael Donaghy Local 32B

Personfication, Mythology

Karl Shapiro A Cut Flower

William Butler Yeats Leda And The Swan

Walter Savage Landor Dirce

Exercises and Diversions

Alan Shapiro Against Poets

Essays and Poems

3. SYMBOLISM: The Broken Coin

Synecdoche, Metonymy

*Mary Jo Salter A Poetics of Sex

The Symbol

Howard Nemerov Money

*Jenn Habel Another Poem About the Heart

George Herbert Hope

William Blake The Sick Rose

Robert Frost Acquainted With The Night

Saint John Of The Cross The Dark Night

Thing-Poems

Rainer Maria Rilke The Merry-Go-Round

William Carlos Williams Nantucket

*Frank O'Hara Why I am Not a Painter

Allegory

Sir Thomas Wyatt My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness

Kingsley Amis A Note on Wyatt

Billy Collins The Death of Allegory

Exercises and Diversions

John Crowe Ransom Good Ships

Carl Sandburg A Fence

Essays and Poems

4. DOUBLE VISION: Antipoetry, Paradox, and Irony

Antipoetry

William Shakespeare Winter

Francis P. Osgood Winter Fairyland In Vermont

Elizabeth Bishop Filling Station

Walt Whitman Beauty

William Shakespeare Sonnet 130

Paradox

Robert Graves The Face in the Mirror

Alexander Pope From An Essay on Man

Irony

*Wilfred Owen The Parable of the Old Man and the Young

Understatement--The Withheld Image

Simonides On the Spartan Dead at Thermopylae

X.J. Kennedy Loose Woman

Overstatement

Robert Graves Spoils

Exercises and Diversions

Rod Taylor Dakota: October, 1822: Hunkpapa Warrior

Wallace Stevens The Emperor Of Ice-Cream

Essays and Poems

Part Two: The Emotions.

5. THE COLOR OF THOUGHT: Emotions in Poetry

The Role of Emotion

William Butler Yeats The Spur

Dick Davis Desire

*Heather McHugh Earthmoving Malediction

Ammianus Epitaph of Nearchos

*Michael McFee Time Enough

W.H. Auden The Shield of Achilles

Sense and Sentimentality

Anonymous The Unquiet Grave

*Julia Moore Little Libbie

John Crowe Ransom Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter

Algernon Charles Swinburne Étude Réaliste (I)

James Wright A Song for The Middle of the Night

May Swenson Cat & The Weather

William Stafford Traveling Through The Dark

*Richard Wilbur The Pardon

Exercises and Diversions

Kenneth Fearing Yes, The Agency Can Handle That

Essays and Poems

Part Three: The Words.

6. MACHINE FOR MAGIC: The Fresh Usual Words

Living Words

Kenneth Patchen Moon, Sun, Sleep, Birds, Live

Robert Frost Dust of Snow; Neither Out Far Nor In Deep

Emily Dickinson A Narrow Fellow in The Grass

Less Is More

Alfred, Lord Tennyson Break, Break, Break

A.E. Housman Along the Field as We Came By

William Butler Yeats An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

Ezra Pound The Bath Tub

Hilaire Belloc On His Books

William Stafford Godiva County, Montana

W.H. Auden The Wanderer

*Roger Mitchell The Word for Everything

*Emily Grosholz Remembering the Ardeche

Exercises and Diversions

Randall Jarrell The Knight, Death, and the Devil

Essays and Poems

Part Four: The Sounds.

7. GOLD IN THE ORE: Sound as Meaning

*Kay Ryan Crustaceon Isalnd

Gail Tremblay Not Sense

Vowels and Assonance

Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Robert Frost Once By The Pacific

E.E. Cummings Chansons Innocentes, I

*Christian Bök Vowels

Consonants and Alliteration

Exercises and Diversions

John Milton On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

Essays and Poems

8. WORKING WITH GOLD: Rhyme and Music

Language as Mimicry

John Updike Player Piano

*Anne Stevenson Making Poetry

A Reason for Rhyme?

*Etheridge Knight A Poem for Myself

Ezra Pound Alba ("When the nightingale . . .")

Off-Rhyme or Slant Rhyme

Wilfred Owen Anthem For Doomed Youth; Arms and the Boy

*Thomas McGrath Remembering the Children of Auschwitz

The Music of Poetry

William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree

*Anonymous Sumer Is Icumen In

*Ezra Pound Ancient Music

Anonymous The Streets of Laredo

Charles Causley Lord Lovelace

Exercises and Diversions

*Timothy Murphy Twice Cursed; Poet’s Prayer

Edwin Arlington Robinson The Dark Hills

Essays and Poems

Part Five: The Rhythms

9. THE DANCER AND THE DANCE: The Play of Rhythms

Rhythm

Repetition as Rhythm

Robert Graves Counting The Beats

Walt Whitman From Leaves of Grass

The Rhythm of Accent

A Note on Scansion

Iambic Pentameter

Variations on Iambic

William Shakespeare Sonnet 66

Meter and Rhythm

William Butler Yeats The Second Coming

Line Length

Matthew Arnold Dover Beach

*May Swenson Question

Theodore Roethke My Papa's Waltz

Exercises and Diversions

William Browne On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke

Katherine McAlpine That Ghastly Night in Dover

Essays and Poems

10. DIFFERENT DRUMMERS: Alternative Forms of Meter

Other Syllable-Stress Rhythms

George Gordon, Lord Byron The Destruction Of Sennacherib

*Timothy Murphy Harvest of Sorrows

Strong-Stress Rhythms

Anonymous I Have Labored Sore

Richard Wilbur Funk

*Anonymous How Many Miles to Babylon?

E.E. Cummings if everything happens that can't be done

*W.H. Auden As I Walked Out One Evening

Sprung Rhythm

A Word about Quantity

*Timothy Steele Sapphics against Anger

Syllabic Meter

James Tate Miss Cho Composes in the Cafeteria

*Ron Rash Scarecrow

Exercises and Diversions

Essays and Poems

11. REMOVING THE NET: "Free Verse," Concrete Poetry, Prose Poems

Some Background on Free Verse

*H.D. Oread

*William Carlos Williams Dedication for a Plot of Ground

Line Breaks

Stephen Crane A Man Said to the Universe

*Denise Levertov The Ache of Marriage

*George Oppen Psalm

*Suzanne Lummis Morning After the 6.1

*Rachel Loden The Killer Instinct

The Variable Foot

William Carlos Williams The Descent

Concrete and Shaped Poetry

Emmett Williams Like Attracts Like

Hanjorg Mayer Oil

*Jan D. Hodge Carousel

The Prose Poem

*Robert Hass A Story About the Body

*Marie Howe Part of Eve’s Discussion

*Jay Meek Trains in Winter

Exercises and Diversions

William Carlos Williams Iris

Essays and Poems

Part Six: The Mind.

12. THE SHAPE OF THOUGHT: Sentences and Structure

The Sentence

Eugenio Montale The Eel

Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool

Use of Connectives

Jacques Prevert The Message...

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0072819596
• ISBN 13: 9780072819595
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 646