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Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns

Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns offers a road map for analyzing poetry through examination of poems' structure, rather than their forms or genres. Michael Theune's breakthrough concept encourages students, teachers, and writers to use structure as a tool to see the fundamental affinities between strikingly different kinds of poetry and radically different literary eras. The book includes examination of the mid-course turn and the elegy, as well as the ironic, concessional, emblem, and retrospective-prospective structures, among others. In addition, 14 contemporary poets provide an example of and commentary on their own work.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 244
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780915924271
  • Genres
  • poetry, teaching, writing, school
  • Release date
  • 2007