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Summary: The preeminent and peerless introduction to poetry
Review: A classic for Classics. Perrine's books have been, for over 25 years, every student's skeleton key to poetry and every instructor's godsend. As I re-enter college and the teaching field Mr.Perrine's works make reacquaintance with the Greats like meeting your best friend's family for the first time. SOUND AND SENSE leaves no stone unturned. Metrics, rhyme, imagery, metaphor or simile, they're all here. The examples are relevant and comprehensive. The explications are clear and concise with a minimum of academic folderol. You will be hard pressed to find an instructor critical of this anthology.
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Summary: A great book for english classes
Review: I am presently using this book in my 9th grade english class, and have found it interesting yet informative at that same time. Its unique way of tieing in writing characteristics with classic poems is great.
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Summary: please help me
Review: I need answers for the questions that below these poems because I have an exam in this book after 2 weeks . so please help me.
Here are the poems:
1. Is my team plowing.
2. To Autumn.
3. Loveliest of Trees.
4. Death, be not proud.
Thanks
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: I read an early version of this book.This books is a great book for readers and writers of poems. Most chapters focus on a particular poetical device, meter, allusions, connotations, and denotations, musical elements. Poems are picked for each chapter which help to highlight that device. Later chapters show how 'more complex' poems put it all together. Questions are given at the end of poems about that poem or particular device. You might get a question like why did the poet use 'sweat' instead or 'perspiration' Many of the questions require deep thought, many of the answers are far from clear-cut, or so straight forward. Just like the poems, it requires thinking over and over about it. This is a good book to use in class or in a reading group. You'll have many enjoyable conversations with a partner. In the end, you will be able to appreciate poems that you read, and break down the poem and see how it works, and why it works from a purely technical standpoint, and not that pretentious touchy-feely analysis you get from day dreamers. It is much like a professional musician that can break down a composition and tell you how it works and why you feel the way you do at certain times. The poetical world is much like that of the highschool music world in one sense; many garage rockstar wannabees shy away from learning any theory for fear that it would hold back their creativity. The same holds for poetry, and you may be afraid too. Do not be. I've seen many smug music beginners with this attitude spend the next 10 years reinventing the wheel and they don't even reinvent much, much less coming up with any 'profoundly new' music. Sound and Sense will give you a very strong foundation for analyzing poems, and writing poems. And added bonus, you will appreciate poems and enjoy them more. You can then add your own 'inventions' to the 'standard' ones shown here. Laurence Perrine even addresses the difference between a purely 'technical' poem from ones inspired from the heart. It's all there. A great poem has both. Let me also comment on the selection of poems. I have a few other books on poems. One entitled like 'Commited to Memory; 100 of the greatest poems'. So far of all the anthologies I have, this book still has one of the best collection I've read. It isn't the widest collection. Since it is an English book, the poets are all from either America or England, but the poets are from all different times and backgrounds. The subject matter spans the range, and not just limited to love poems. Modern poets are under represented, but that is natural. This is a book that takes years to make, not a magazine. Still, lots of this book can be applied to slam poetry. So what can be better for a fan of poetry? This book will allow you to read better, write better, and you will have the best collection of poems assembled. Final word, don't be intimidated by this review. I don't want to give you the sense that this book is dense and heavy with seriousness. It isn't. It's a great read and just like me, you will pick it up from time to time to read, think, and enjoy. I have been enjoying my copy of the book for
the last 10 years.
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Summary: This book is great for any english class
Review: I think that this book is the most valuable book that any teacher or student could have for understanding poetry.
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Summary: perfect.
Review: NOTE: the edition of sound and sense that i have read is the seventh, an old copy that my father used in high school. this book is quite simply the best anthology of poetry i have ever read. as if that weren't enough, as a textbook it includes simple, elegant, and intelligent commentary to teach the basics of style, metre, etc. a great book - quite possibly the only book of poetry you'll ever need.
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Summary: Brown Students are Correct in All Things
Review: Since a Brown student believes Sound and Sense to be an inferior book, I will follow suit. Considering how Yale merely pretends to be the superior school, when deep down we envy Brunonians. They deserve the Ivy League Championship in football this year. Even though Brown is filled with post-modernist liberals, it is still the majestic jewel of the Ivy League. God save the Queen, and God save Brown!
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Summary: Brown Students are Correct in All Things
Review: Since a Brown student believes Sound and Sense to be an inferior book, I will follow suit. Considering how Yale merely pretends to be the superior school, when deep down we envy Brunonians. They deserve the Ivy League Championship in football this year. Even though Brown is filled with post-modernist liberals, it is still the majestic jewel of the Ivy League. God save the Queen, and God save Brown!
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Summary: Haikus for Enjoyment
Review: Sound and Sense give way / You broaden my horizons / Now please go away / An excellent text / Written with much great gusto / No longer perplexed / Chapter by chapter / Defintions presented / 'mid students laughter / Annoying questions / Given each and ev'ry day / I must thank DH / These reviews appear / sarcastic to the masses / As well they should, dear / P.S. Apologies take / For the erroneous lines / Amazon wraps words /
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Summary: Haikus for Enjoyment
Review: Sound and Sense give way / You broaden my horizons / Now please go away / An excellent text / Written with much great gusto / No longer perplexed / Chapter by chapter / Defintions presented / 'mid students laughter / Annoying questions / Given each and ev'ry day / I must thank DH / These reviews appear / sarcastic to the masses / As well they should, dear / P.S. Apologies take / For the erroneous lines / Amazon wraps words /
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