The Roar on the Other Side: A Guide for Student Poets: A Guide for Student Poets - Softcover

Rhodes, Suzanne Underwood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885767668 ISBN 13: 9781885767660

Publisher: Canon Press, 2000

Synopsis

For all its storied past and lofty reputation, poetry is really just the art of noticing, naming, and comparing the stuff of this world. Unlike the eye of modern science (which sees the world as a giant specimen for us to dissect), poetry fosters and nurtures life by finding wonder in the nooks and crannies of ordinary life.

Suzanne Rhodes, a longtime poet and teacher, offers The Roar on the Other Side as an introductory guide to poetry for students (junior high and up). Focusing on the importance of sight and the necessity of practice, Rhodes easily communicates the joy of words to her readers and helps them see how good poetry binds all seemingly--contradictory things together.

Students will emerge from this book with a good handle on the basics of writing poetry and a new appreciation for the awesome world in which we live. It covers poetic tools (similes, metaphors, figurative language, etc); forms (sonnets, haiku, syllabic verse); tricks (assonance, alliteration, rhyme); genres (lyric, narrative, epic, ballad, etc.); and exercises that encourage students to experiment more.

Edition details

• Publisher: Canon Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1885767668
• ISBN 13: 9781885767660
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192