![]() In fact, many of the chapters from the book can be read here, as they were published on the Guardian website. There are plenty of others if you want to study metre in more depth - Stephen Fry's 'The Ode Less Travelled' is an excellent place to start Jeffrey Wainwright's 'Poetry: The Basics' is also very good, and he, unlike Fry, is actually a practising poet and James Fenton's 'An Introduction to English Poetry' is also a good one for beginners. I think he give a very brief key to poetic feet and metre at the start of the book. I've read the Paulin book you mention as well - I can't say I agree with everything he says about the poems he analysed, but I found it was worth reading nonetheless. And if you do, then you can ask why, as it might give you a greater insight to the poem. ![]() ![]() And even though it's less popular than it was, you can still scan many free verse poems and find where the poet has used feet and metre - even if it's only a phrase, or a line. I seem now, after a few years' reading and writing poetry, to be able to spot a sonnet before I've read it, or instinctively feel a line of iambic pentameter - it's just practice and habit.īut I would strongly advise you to learn how to read feet and metre, as it has been essential to poetry through the years, and no self-respecting poet today would try to learn his or her craft - as writer or reader / student - by ignoring the past. ![]() WICKES - Reading or 'scanning' metre (British spelling) is something that comes over time. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |