Poetry: reading, responding, writing -- Understanding the text -- Tone -- Speaker: whose voice do we hear? -- Situation and setting: what happens? Where? When? -- Language -- The sounds of poetry -- Internal structure -- External form -- The whole text -- Reading poetry in context -- The author's work as context: John Keats and Adreinne Rich -- Literary tradition as context -- Cultural and historical contests: the Harlem renaissance -- Critical contexts: a poetry casebook -- The process of creation -- Evaluating poetry -- Reading more poetry -- Paraphrase, summary, and description -- The elements of the essay -- The writing process -- The research essay -- quotation, citation, and documentation -- Sample research paper -- Critical approaches.
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