Poetry Beginner

This is a practical book. By the time you finish reading it, you will have all the tools you need to write convincing, compelling, and beautiful poetry. Whether someone has asked you to come up with a poem for a special occasion, or you have suddenly been struck by an intense emotion and are looking for a way to articulate it, or you want to express love to your sweetheart on Valentine’s day, “How to Write a Poem: A Beginner’s Guide" provides all the necessary techniques to enable your poem to be a success.

It's no doubt that poetry writing entails creativity, making it one of the most feared art activities. And for that reason, the main purpose of this book is to help you take away many of your bad beliefs about poetry writing and teach you how to write effectively, with the well use of vocabularies, metaphors, and similes.

Looking to take your Mandarin Chinese vocabulary to the next level? Unlock the full potential of Mandarin Chinese with "Mandarin Chinese Vocabulary Builder: Cheng Yu 成语 Proverbs and Poems" by Eric Engle. Learning a new language can be a challenging experience, but with the right tools and resources, it can also be an enjoyable and fulfilling journey. This comprehensive guide offers a unique approach to language learning, with a focus on Cheng Yu 成语 proverbs and poems - an essential part of Chinese language and culture. With over 200 Cheng Yu 成语 proverbs and poems included in ...

You’re about to discover how to write a really beautiful poem as a beginner in less than 24 hours. You do not have to have all the experience in the world to write a great poem, all you need is this audiobook.

In the whimsical world of rhyming delights, where daisies dance and stars take flight, comes a poetry book that'll bring you cheer. With zany characters and bouncy rhythms to follow, this whimsical collection will make you wallow in laughter and joy, from start to end, in a merry poetic journey, my good friend! Join a cast of colorful creatures, from cats in hats to fish who shout, travel through realms of pure imagination, where trouble is turned around and doubt is avoided. Each page is adorned with vibrant art, a visual feast that sets minds apart, as the words of rhyme and reason take ...

The sonnets are a collection numbering 154 poems dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty, and mortality. They were probably written over a long period of Shakespeare's life up until 1609, when they were first printed. The first 17 poems, traditionally referred to as the "procreation sonnets", are addressed to a young man urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalize his beauty by passing it on to his descendants.

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the greatest lyric poets of the English language. But his early work as a writer went unrecognized, and he was forced to earn his living in the newspaper business, working as an editor in Richmond, Philadelphia, and New York. Although he was respected as a literary critic, his poetry and short stories were neglected until the publication of The Raven and Other Poems in 1845, which propelled him to instant fame.

Beginner's Guide to a Head-on Collision offers the deeply moving poetic memoir of Sebastian Matthews's life in the years after the car accident that devastated him and his wife and son. The poems, which often feel like electric improvised prayer-songs, intimately evoke the terrors and wonders of catastrophic physical injury and of life re-booted. They are disturbing, eerie poems that embody the paradoxes of being The Dead Man at the crossing.

T.S. Eliots Lyrik muss man hören wie Musik. Ob in der kraftvollen Rezitation des Autors selbst oder in den präzisen Lesungen der deutschen Übertragungen: Atemlos lauscht man den freien Rhythmen seiner Sprachmelodie, staunt über die musikalische Komposition der Texte und entdeckt, wie aus seinen mystisch-abstrakten Begriffen Bilder entstehen...

A former English teacher at Seattle University, Lyons enhanced his love for poetry by studying the great classical poets in the original Greek and Latin. This anthology is not just for connoisseurs. It is for everyone who enjoys poetry.....

Robert Browning (1812-1889), playright and poet, is known and admired for his dramatic monologues in blank verse, of which he is a recognized master. He was not always popular in his own time but is now considered one of the foremost poets of Victorian England.

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a poem written in 1922 by Robert Frost and published in 1923 in his New Hampshire volume. Imagery, personification, and repetition are prominent in the work. In a letter to Louis Untermeyer, Frost called it "my best bid for remembrance".

Although Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is known mainly for his tales of the macabre and the supernatural, and is an acknowledged master of those genres, he thought of himself primarily as a poet. Here is a collection of over 30 of his poems, including two of the best known: "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee".

Sarah de Nordwall is a poet and storyteller who calls herself a bard with a bard school. In 1993 she was inspired by an account of the ancient bards of Ireland who were called to 'speak truth to the king without fear' and to 'entertain all from the peasant to the king'. This she determined to do and also to set out to found a bard school like the ones of old that trained one for such a mission.

E. Clerihew Bentley is credited with the invention of the ‘clerihew’, or humorous verse aphorism, on biographical subjects. This collection, which was illustrated by G. K Chesterton, contains thirty-nine irregular quatrains on historical and contemporary celebrities, starting with Sir Christopher Wren and concluding with the publisher, T. Werner Laurie.