The Poem S Heartbeat

Author : Alfred Corn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132312617

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The Poem's Heartbeat by Alfred Corn Pdf

An indispensable guide for poets, readers, students, and teachers. "The Poem's Heartbeat may well be the finest general book available on prosody."--Library Journal (starred review) "A provocative, definitive manual."--Publishers Weekly Finally back in print, this slender, user-friendly guide to rhyme, rhythm, meter, and form sparks "intuitive and technical lightning-flashes" for poets and readers curious to know a poem's inner workings. Clear, good-humored, and deeply readable, Alfred Corn's book is the modern classic on prosody--the art and science of poetic meter. Each of the book's ten chapters is a progressive, step-by-step presentation rich with examples to illustrate concepts such as line, stress, scansion marks, slant rhyme, and iambic pentameter. "By the book's end," noted a rave review in The Boston Review, "Corn, magi-teacher and impeccable guide, has taught the novice to become artist and magician." The Poem's Heartbeat also includes a selected bibliography and encourages readers and students to carry their investigations further. The word "line" comes from the Latin linea, itself derived from the word for a thread of linen. We can look at the lines of poetry as slender compositional units forming a weave like that of a textile. Indeed, the word "text" has the same origin as the word "textile." It isn't difficult to compare the compositional process to weaving, where thread moves from left to right, reaches the margin of the text, then shuttles back to begin the next unit . . .

Author : Catherine Robson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691119366

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Heart Beats by Catherine Robson Pdf

Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. Telling the story of a lost pedagogical practice and its wide-ranging effects on two sides of the Atlantic, Catherine Robson explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who committed poems to heart, and changed the worlds in which they lived. Heart Beats begins by investigating recitation's progress within British and American public educational systems over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and weighs the factors that influenced which poems were most frequently assigned. Robson then scrutinizes the recitational fortunes of three short works that were once classroom classics: Felicia Hemans's "Casabianca," Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," and Charles Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna." To conclude, the book considers W. E. Henley's "Invictus" and Rudyard Kipling's "If--," asking why the idea of the memorized poem arouses such different responses in the United States and Great Britain today. Focusing on vital connections between poems, individuals, and their communities, Heart Beats is an important study of the history and power of memorized poetry.

Author : Sharon Creech
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780061972478

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Heartbeat by Sharon Creech Pdf

“A stunning accomplishment. This story pierces the heart.” —Chicago Sun-Times RUN RUN RUN. That’s what twelve-year-old Annie loves to do. When she’s barefoot and running, she can hear her heart beating…thump-THUMP, thump-THUMP. It’s a rhythm that makes sense in a year when everything’s shifting: Her mother is pregnant, her grandfather is forgetful, and her best friend, Max, is always moody. Everything changes over time, just like the apple Annie’s been assigned to draw a hundred times. Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech masterfully weaves this tender and intuitive story told in free verse about a young girl beginning to understand the many rhythms of life, and how she fits within them. Named one of the New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing “Tenderhearted. Vintage Creech. Its richness lies in its sheer simplicity.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “The story soars as Annie’s feet fly.” —Bookpage

Author : Cortney Davis,Judy Schaefer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015038101971

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Between the Heartbeats by Cortney Davis,Judy Schaefer Pdf

An anthology of poems and prose writings in which nurses reflect on their everyday experiences and their reactions to the joys and tragedies they witness on a daily basis.

Author : Catherine Robson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691163376

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Heart Beats by Catherine Robson Pdf

Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. Telling the story of a lost pedagogical practice and its wide-ranging effects on two sides of the Atlantic, Catherine Robson explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who committed poems to heart, and changed the worlds in which they lived. Heart Beats begins by investigating recitation's progress within British and American public educational systems over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and weighs the factors that influenced which poems were most frequently assigned. Robson then scrutinizes the recitational fortunes of three short works that were once classroom classics: Felicia Hemans's "Casabianca," Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," and Charles Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna." To conclude, the book considers W. E. Henley's "Invictus" and Rudyard Kipling's "If--," asking why the idea of the memorized poem arouses such different responses in the United States and Great Britain today. Focusing on vital connections between poems, individuals, and their communities, Heart Beats is an important study of the history and power of memorized poetry.

Author : John Brandi
Publisher : White Pine Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1877727407

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Heartbeat Geography by John Brandi Pdf

A major collection of Brandi's work, spanning nearly thirty years of travel-- from early poems written in South America to those from India, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, the Arctic, the North American outback, the deep solitude of New Mexico's mountains, and always from the continent of the heart. "Brandi's sandy poem mandalas, crisscrossing back and forth on their own paths, begin to fill out landscapes in depth."-- Gary Snyder

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : SAMPI Books
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786561331159

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The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator tries to prove his sanity after murdering an elderly man because of his "vulture eye". His growing guilt leads him to hear the old man's heart beating under the floorboards, which drives him to confess the crime to the police.

Author : Corina Guijt
Publisher : America Star Books
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1681220296

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Heart-Beat by Corina Guijt Pdf

In these poems, a teenager describes her feelings. Sometimes she feels lonely, sad, scared, or loved. These feelings are always real. The book is called Heart-Beat because the writer feels you have to have a heart, otherwise you would not really live, just like you cannot live without a heartbeat. And just like a heartbeat, it can sometimes be quick and sometimes slow, so it is with her poems. At times, there will be short sentences, other times just long sentences. Sometimes they leave a lot to the imagination, and sometimes just a little. Corina, a girl of 16 years, has just made her dream come true - to write her own poems. She has loved poems for as long as she can remember, and she was told that she has a gift of writing them. At a time when she only had a few friends, she learned how to trust people and she has written about her feelings on paper. Here is the result, and every word comes straight from the heart.

Author : Thaddeus Hutyra
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9783739665016

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Heartbeat by Thaddeus Hutyra Pdf

Anthology of love poems, enriched with sophisticated philosophy of the author on all issues there are in life. From love to romance, from liberty to freedoms, all issues present in this magnificent set of poems.

Author : Liz Newman
Publisher : Creative Talents Unleashed
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1945791403

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Hope Between Heartbeats by Liz Newman Pdf

As gentle as a summer rain, Liz Newman writes with a mellifluous style, reminiscent of the classical poets. There is a gentle, soothing syntax in her words, a lovely treas-ure trove of poetic compositions. The author addresses the very elements of life, crafting a book into sections which form the cornerstones of human experiences; Life, Love, Loss, and Learning. Each section is skillfully comprised of words that touch the soul.¿Your body is failing you, but so am I, be-cause I don¿t know how to save you,¿ is a heart-wrenching stanza from the poem, `Mu-tiny on Immunity.¿ For the reader, the feeling of the helplessness and impending loss is permeable and real. Throughout this beautiful book, there are hidden jewels which cause you to revisit the poems again and again. The author suggests that the poems herein can also be read randomly. I especially enjoyed that this book can be appreciated, regardless of where one chooses to read; each piece stands on their own merit. A debut for this author, Liz Newman has created a beautiful collection, a joy for readers who love a classically written compilation. Well done! Brenda-Lee Ranta author, Allegories

Author : Tonya Amos
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781418451547

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Echo of a Heartbeat by Tonya Amos Pdf

Author : Bobby McLeod,Vida Brown,Rochelle Patten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Australian poetry
ISBN : 095803592X

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Ngudjung Yugarang by Bobby McLeod,Vida Brown,Rochelle Patten Pdf

Author : Neil Shepard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008940368

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Scavenging the Country for a Heartbeat by Neil Shepard Pdf

Scavenging the Country for a Heartbeat takes readers on a journey from the Maine coast to the Pacific Northwest, from Vermont to the Florida Keys, from the Louisiana swamps to the plains of Kansas and Nebraska. Guided by his belief that "what is missing/makes memory whole," poet Neil Shepard revisits landscapes marred by conflict and compromise. What he discovers is solace and the possibility of transcendence. As a collection these poems detail an emotional evolution - a spiritual transformation - in which progress is measured in "the distances still stretching away." Book jacket.

Author : Evan Turk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481435215

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Heartbeat by Evan Turk Pdf

This cinematic picture book from critically acclaimed author and illustrator Evan Turk follows the life of a baby whale from birth, to song, to silence, to a new song of compassion and hope for a brighter future. Two hearts, one song. A young whale and her mother sing together. Heartbeat. Then the mother is gone. One heart, one song. The young whale swims, alone and lonely, for days and years and decades… until one day a little girl hears her and joins her song. Together, they sing of hope for a brighter future. One world, one song, one heartbeat.

Author : Shoola Oyindamola
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781496969675

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Heartbeat by Shoola Oyindamola Pdf

Heartbeat is a reflection of the learnings that Oyindamola had, at her first encounter of poetry. It is a classical, yet simple collection that highlights, love, war, romance, experience and spirituality from an ingenuous perspective. This ensemble, an intriguing debut, gives experession to the author’s genuine feelings of pain, joy, nostalgia and depression. This collection is also the invention of the author’s vulnerability to topics that concern her gender. She gives hints of feminism but in an inconspicuous way by writing poems about rape, and women’s strength in wearying events like war and in love. Her second collection to be published in August, 2017 unleashes this feminism beyond measure. It is an incomparable showcase of her metamorphosis as woman as well as her reality as a young black woman in America.