The discovery of poetry
Subtitle: a field guide to reading and writing poems
By: Frances Mayes.
Edition: 1st Harvest ed.
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
Subjects: Poetics.; English poetry -- Appreciation.; American poetry -- Appreciation.; English poetry -- History and criticism.; American poetry -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-481) and indexes.
"A Harvest original."
Table of contents: title: Sources and approaches. The origin of a poem -- The art of reading poems -- Words : texture and sound -- Texture of language -- Choosing words -- The muscle of language -- Sound patterns -- The surprise of language -- The kinship of words -- Poems --  Images : the perceptual field. Three image poems -- Images and perception -- Literal images -- Poems -- Figurative images -- Symbols -- Poems -- The speaker : the eye of the poem -- The invented "I" -- The personal "I" speaker -- The public voice -- The invisible speaker -- Poems -- Rhyme and repetition. Rhyme -- Poems -- Repetition -- Poems -- Meter : the measured flow -- What is meter? -- Scansion -- Iambic pentameter -- More key meters -- Two other metrical options -- Rhythm and meaning -- Poems -- Free verse. The genesis of free verse -- The free verse craft of the line -- Voice -- Free verse, the tradition and beyond -- Poems -- Traditional and open forms. Looking at forms -- Traditional forms -- Poems -- Open forms -- Prose poems -- Open forms  -- Poems -- Subject and style. Types of poems -- Style-- Poems on four subjects -- Poems -- Interpretation : the wide response -- What is meaning? -- Gaps and holes -- Power sources -- Critical discriminations -- Poems -- A poet's handbook. Invoking your muse -- Beginning with a white page -- Suggestions for writing and revising -- Exercises -- Your poems out the door -- Index of titles -- index of authors and titles -- index of terms and topics.