The Flexible Lyric - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Flexible Lyric write by Ellen Bryant Voigt. This book was released on 2011-03-15. The Flexible Lyric available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These nine eloquent and skillfully crafted essays by a distinguished poet examine the art of lyric poetry in all aspects of its design and structure. Through attentive readings of a variety of artists, including her contemporaries, Ellen Bryant Voigt celebrates the structure and elasticity of lyric poems. She argues for reading as a writer reads--with equal parts passion and analysis. Her analyses of the effects of tone, image, voice, and structure connect brilliant theory with tangible examples. Intimate as well as informative, the collection begins with a discussion of the creative process and Voigt's fascination with the writing of Flannery O'Connor and Elizabeth Bishop. Readings of lyric poems by Shakespeare, Sidney, Poe, Stevens, Williams, Larkin, Bogan, Roethke, Plath, Levertov, Berryman, and others demonstrate the roles of gender, point of view, image, and music in poetry. An experienced teacher, Voigt focuses on the lyric but encourages, in any study of poetry, original thinking, attention to structure, and, above all, close reading of the work itself. An intelligent and thought-provoking marriage of art and scholarship, The Flexible Lyric exemplifies, with fierceness, dedication, and precision, how the making of poems is not just a trade but a calling.
Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece
Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece write by Jessica Romney. This book was released on 2020-04-22. Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece examines how Greek men presented themselves and their social groups to one another. The author examines identity rhetoric in sympotic lyric: how Greek poets constructed images of self for their groups, focusing in turn on the construction of identity in martial-themed poetry, the protection of group identities in the face of political exile, and the negotiation between individual and group as seen in political lyric. By conducting a close reading of six poems and then a broad survey of martial lyric, exile poetry, political lyric, and sympotic lyric as a whole, Jessica Romney demonstrates that sympotic lyric focuses on the same basic behaviors and values to construct social identities regardless of the content or subgenre of the poems in question. The volume also argues that the performance of identity depends on the context as well as the material of performance. Furthermore, the book demonstrates that sympotic lyric overwhelmingly prefers to use identity rhetoric that insists on the inherent sameness of group members. All non-English text and quotes are translated, with the original languages given alongside the translation or in the endnotes.
We, the Almighty Fires
We, the Almighty Fires - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We, the Almighty Fires write by Anna Rose Welch. This book was released on 2019-10-01. We, the Almighty Fires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These thought-provoking and spiritual poems focus on faith, relationships, and the role of God in life and in the bedroom. Female empowerment is at the heart of this collection, as well as perceptions of humanity as beings full of light.
The Art of Syntax
The Art of Syntax - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Syntax write by Ellen Bryant Voigt. This book was released on 2009-06-23. The Art of Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning. "This structure—this architecture—is the essential drama of the poem's composition," she argues. The Art of Syntax is an indispensable book on the writer's craft by one of America's best and most influential poets and teachers.
Chickamauga
Chickamauga - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chickamauga write by Charles Wright. This book was released on 2014-07-29. Chickamauga available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume, Wright's eleventh book of poetry, is a vivid, contemplative, far-reaching, yet wholly plain-spoken collection of moments appearing as lenses through which to see the world beyond our moments. Chickamauga is also a virtuoso exploration of the power of concision in lyric poetry--a testament to the flexible music of the long line Wright has made his own. As a reviewer in Library Journal noted: "Wright is one of those rare and gifted poets who can turn thought into music. Following his self-prescribed regimen of purgatio, illuminato, and contemplatio, Wright spins one lovely lyric after another on such elemental subjects as sky, trees, birds, months, and seasons. But the real subject is the thinking process itself and the mysterious alchemy of language: 'The world is a language we never quite understand.'"
