Poetry 101

From Shakespeare and Rupi Kaur to Iambic Pentameter and Blank Verse, Everything You Need to Know about Poetry

Susan Dalzell

• Publisher: Adams Media
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781507208397
• eBook ISBN: 9781507208403
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Creative Writing
• Index: Literature

Become a poet and write poetry with ease with help from this clear and simple guide in the popular 101 series.

Poetry never goes out of style. An ancient writing form found in civilizations across the world, poetry continues to inform the way we write now, whether we realize it or not—especially in social media—with its focus on brevity and creating the greatest possible impact with the fewest words. Poetry 101 is your companion to the wonderful world of meter and rhyme, and walks you through the basics of poetry. From Shakespeare and Chaucer, to Maya Angelou and Rupi Kaur, you’ll explore the different styles and methods of writing, famous poets, and poetry movements and concepts—and even find inspiration for creating poems of your own.

Whether you are looking to better understand the poems you read, or you want to tap into your creative side to write your own, Poetry 101 gives you everything you need!

INDEX

A note about the index: The pages referenced in this index refer to the page numbers in the print edition. Clicking on a page number will take you to the ebook location that corresponds to the beginning of that page in the print edition. For a comprehensive list of locations of any word or phrase, use your reading system’s search function.

Addonizio, Kim, 241

African-American poets, 52–53, 131–32, 171–72, 177–98, 216, 237–41, 250

Amis, Kingsley, 136

Angelou, Maya, 171, 179–82, 194, 241, 250

Anglo-Saxon period, 24–27

Arnold, Matthew, 48, 91, 93, 107, 159

Art, 50–53, 70, 125, 149–51, 240, 252

Ashbery, John, 198, 199

Auden, W.H., 52, 53, 107, 157–60, 175, 203, 207

Augustan Age, 55–57

Austin, Derrick, 53

Balaban, John, 131

Baldwin, James, 180

Ballads, 18, 56–61, 68–70, 92–94, 100, 104, 184–86, 190

Baraka, Amiri, 186, 239

Beat poets, 112, 153, 156, 163, 172, 196, 199–200, 210–14, 217

Bede, 25

Bernstein, Charles, 252

Berryman, John, 198

Bilston, Brian, 249

Bishop, Elizabeth, 148

Black Arts movement, 186–87, 191

Black Mountain poets, 140, 199

Blake, William, 47, 66, 70–71, 212, 251

Blues, 159, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Introduction
• How to Read a Poem
• Stanza, Meter, and Form
• Ancient Greeks and Romans
• The Anglo-Saxons
• Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340–1400)
• Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
• William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
• John Donne (1572–1631)
• Religious Poetry
• Art and Poetry
• Neoclassical Poets
• Ballads
• Robert Burns (1759–1796)
• Romantic Movement (1789–1824)
• John Keats (1795–1821)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
• Lord Byron (1788–1824)
• Love Poetry
• The Victorians
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
• Death and Poetry
• Free Verse
• Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
• Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
• William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
• War Poetry
• The Modernists
• Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
• T.S. Eliot (1888–1965)
• Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
• E.E. Cummings (1894–1962)
• William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
• W.H. Auden (1907–1973)
• Nature Poetry
• Robert Frost (1874–1963)
• Feminism and Poetry
• Adrienne Rich (1929–2012)
• Maya Angelou (1928–2014)
• African-American Poets
• Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
• Contemporary Movements
• Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
• Ted Hughes (1930–1998)
• The Beats
• Poetry As Protest
• Seamus Heaney (1939–2013)
• Charles Simic (1938–Present)
• Louise Glück (1943–Present)
• Billy Collins (1941–Present)
• Rap and Slam
• Rupi Kaur (1992–Present)
• Writing Poetry
• Pushing Poetic Forms
• Photographs
• About the Author
• Index
• Copyright