Name: Rules for the Dance
ISBN: 9780395850862

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Why This Clicks

How Verse Moves

Explore the craft of metrical verse through sound, rhythm, and close attention to language.

Come here for

A clear look at how musicality and lyrical words shape poems
Examples from well-known poems to illuminate the craft

Expect

A graceful study of poetry as conscious craft
Attention to sound and rhythm, and how they deepen a poem’s ideas

Book Details

Authors: Mary Oliver
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: July 27, 1998
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Poetry Writing · Nature Poetry
Reading lane: Poetry Writing

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Publisher Categories

Language Arts
Poetry Criticism
British & Irish Poetry

About This Book

Pulitzer-prize winning poet and National Book Award winner, Mary Oliver, provides a graceful manual on the mechanics of poetical composition.? Poets and those who simply want to understand poetry will enjoy this study of poetry as a conscious craft.? Breaking down the basics with examples from well-known poems, Oliver shows how the dimensions of sound and rhythm (musicality) and lyrical words (assonance, alliteration, etc.) can combine to make powerful verse. She enables rea...

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Pulitzer-prize winning poet and National Book Award winner, Mary Oliver, provides a graceful manual on the mechanics of poetical composition.? Poets and those who simply want to understand poetry will enjoy this study of poetry as a conscious craft.? Breaking down the basics with examples from well-known poems, Oliver shows how the dimensions of sound and rhythm (musicality) and lyrical words (assonance, alliteration, etc.) can combine to make powerful verse. She enables readers to "enter the thudding deeps and the rippling shallows of sound-pleasure and rhythm-pleasure that intensify both the poem's narrative and its ideas."