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Index
Foreword
Part One – Preparing the way
Chapter One – Is poetry relevant?
Interlude – A language mystery
Chapter Two – Do we have to study poetry?
Interlude – How words evolve
Chapter Three – Amateur to professional
Interlude – A word is known...
Part two – Interpreting the poem
Chapter Four – Step-by-step interpretation
Interlude – From bad to verse
Chapter Five – Shapes on a page
Interlude – The stuffed Owl
Chapter Six – Intensive reading
Chapter Seven – Vocabulary
Chapter Eight – Imagery
Chapter Nine – From simile to myth
Interlude – Figures of speech
Chapter Ten – Point of view
Interlude – More on beginner to expert
Chapter Eleven – Personalities
Interlude – More on The Eve of St Agnes
Chapter Twelve – Personification
Chapter Thirteen – Actions of the poem
Interlude – More Wordsworth and the child
Chapter Fourteen – The five (or was it six?) senses
Interlude – More about sonnets
Chapter Fifteen – Position, rhythm and rhyme
Rhyme
Interlude – Reading the meter
Chapter Sixteen – External references
Interlude – Words, words, words
Chapter Seventeen – The unexpected problem
Interlude – The bigger the subject?
Chapter Eighteen – And finally...
Part Three – Exercises in interpretation
Chapter nineteen – Interpreting a poem
Poem one – Gray’s Elegy in a country Churchyard
Poem two – Milton On his Blindness
Poem three – Campbell, The River of Life
Poem four – Spenser One Day I wrote her Name...
Poem one: Gray’s Elegy – a model answer
Poem two: Milton, On his Blindness – a model answer
Poem three: Campbell, The River of Life – a model answer
Poem four: Spenser sonnet – a model answer
Appendix
Selected literary terms
About the Author
Other recent books by Rex W Last
(Second enlarged edition)
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