Martin Beller, Donna Tanzer

Unlocking the Poem (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide to Discovering Meaning through Understanding and Analysis

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The limited number of poetry resources for high school students all present their subjects by way of techniques: poems are included in chapters focused on "metaphor," "tone," or "sound." But no great poem was ever written to illustrate a lesson on metaphor.

The way to understand a poem is to get to know it as itself, rather than as an example of poetic technique. Unlocking the Poem treats each poem as an independent literary event, just as it was written. Discussion of literary elements begins only after the student has fully explored the poem with his or her eyes, ears, feelings, and mind.

The primary interpretive strategy of repeated reading and patient questioning-rather than the enumeration and analysis of literary elements-removes much of the mystification that a reliance on terminology imposes on the study of poems. Unlocking the Poem uses a friendly approach that recognizes our reasons for reading poems: to see things in a new way, to feel things keenly and freshly.

Unlocking the Poem provides a path toward understanding that any motivated student can follow. Using this book, students will develop the ability to connect with any poem they may encounter by following a simple progression of steps. Featured poems by William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Claude McKay, Philip Larkin, and Elizabeth Bishop.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sherpa Learning, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 114
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781948641210
• Artikelnr.: 59164518

Autorenporträt

Martin Beller is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Texas Southern University. He has also taught at The Ohio State University, New York Institute of Technology, New York University and Long Island University, and at YES Preparatory Public School. He received his B.A. in English and Philosophy from C.W. Post College in New York and his M.A. and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, concentrating on Medieval and Renaissance Literature. His dissertation was a history of the editing of Shakespeare from 1709 to 1863. Dr. Beller has published articles and reviews and delivered conference papers on Chaucer and the Gawain-Poet, Shakespeare and Marlowe, the nineteenth-century novel, and contemporary film. He served as a Consultant on the Shakespeare Skillbook series written by Barbara Bloy and Donna Tanzer, and has also served as a Reader and Table Leader for the AP English Literature and Composition exam.