Poetry
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Poetry

John Strachan, Richard Terry

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John Strachan, Richard Terry

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Quickly equips readers with the strategies to understand and deepen their engagement with individual poemsPraise for the first edition: 'Wide-ranging, provocative, and thorough, Strachan and Terry provide the student with all the tools necessary for the study of poetry. I can think of no other volume that offers the reader so much in so few pages. This is the text of choice for all students and teachers of the subject.'Duncan Wu, University of Glasgow Based on their extensive teaching experience, the authors provide a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry using practical examples throughout. o Packed full of examples, from the work of Shakespeare to Edwin Morgan and from Sylvia Plath to John Agardo Detailed index of poets, works, terms, forms & conceptso Full glossary of poetic terms, from /acatalectic/ to /wrenched accent/, with cross-references and page references of examplesNew for this edition:o End-of-chapter exercises and follow-up research taskso New readings of modern women's poetryo Section on How to Write Poetry with exerciseso Suggestions for further reading – both books and websites

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Publisher
EUP
Year
2011
ISBN
9780748680795
22
Poetry
5. 
In 
Ted 
Hughes’s 
famous 
poem 
‘The 
Thought 
Fox’ 
(1957), 
the 
poet 
imagines
himself 
at 
midnight, 
awaiting 
inspiration 
and 
staring 
at 
‘blank 
page’.Suddenly,
something 
happens:
Through 
the 
window 
see 
no 
star:
Something 
more 
near
Though 
deeper 
within 
darkness
Is 
entering 
the 
loneliness.
He 
characterises 
this 
as 
fox, 
and 
portrays 
the 
animal 
darting 
into 
his 
head 
in
metaphor 
which 
captures 
the 
moment 
of 
poetic 
inspiration: 
… 
with 
sudden 
sharp 
hot 
stink 
of 
fox
It 
enters 
the 
dark 
hole 
of 
the 
head.
The 
window 
is 
starless 
still; 
the 
clock 
ticks,
The 
page 
is 
printed.
(i) 
Why 
have 
poets 
so 
frequently 
identified 
inspiration 
as 
something
external,
whether 
metaphorised 
as 
muse 
or, 
indeed, 
fox?
(ii) 
What 
do 
you 
make 
of 
the 
poet’s 
remarkable 
metaphor 
of 
his 
head 
as 
‘dark
hole’? 

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