Poetry
The Secret Gems of Poetry Revealed
3rd Edition
In-Focus


By Richard Cochrane
July 2007
Studymates LTD
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9781842850923
143 Pages, Illustrated, 5 1/4 x 8 1/2"
$29.50 paper original


Do you understand form and content? Can you explain homophony and structure? Are you able to discuss structuralism, binary oppositions and post-structuralism? This book is a short-cut to understanding poetry and offers a framework for literary criticism as it is applied to poetry. It provides a firm foundation for you to progress into modern literary theory or more traditional forms of criticism.

Here is how poetry works. Do you need to write about poetry or want to understand poems and be able to write top essays or poetry criticisms? In this book, you will discover the key to understanding poetry, and the secrets, which will raise your understanding. This book shows you how poetry works and how to make sense of it.

This book is useful for students taking college or university-based English first year degree courses, students taking A-Level courses in English Literature, college and university central and English Department libraries, people who love language and want to understand more about language, creative writers and students of creative writing.


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