How to Read a Poem: Seven Steps

ISBN-13: 9780367695040 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 154 str.

Thomas H. Ford

Opis

How to Read a Poem is an introduction to creative reading. It presents a new method for learning and teaching the skills of poetic interpretation, providing its readers with practical steps they can use to construct perceptive, inventive readings of any poem they might read.

Spis treści

Introduction  Step 1: Fragment the Poem  Step 2: Read It Aloud  Step 3: Describe a Form  Step 4: Find the Weirdness  Step 5: Find Poetic Self-Reference  Step 6: Find Other Ambiguities  Step 7: Totalize the Reading

O autorze

Thomas H. Ford is a lecturer of English at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.