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How To Write Poetry Scholastic Guides| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | Paul Janeczko | | Publisher: | Scholastic Reference | | Release date: | 01 April, 2001 | | List price: | $8.95 |
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Even I Can Dare to Write Poetry!! |
| This book helped me a lot with feeling more confident about writing my own poetry and teaching poetry to my ESOL students. If only more books could be so friendly and clear. A terrific achievement. |
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Not for Everyone |
| I bought this book to help my 10 year old, who is already a budding poet, improve his poetry skills by starting to think more carefully about meter, rhyme schemes, forms, and careful selection of words. This book is not for him or others in his situation. It's clearly not designed to identify what constitutes a GOOD poem, or even what a poem is (the word "poem" is never defined in the book, including the glossary, and there is probably a good reason for that). Here are a couple of telling examples: from page 82: "when you draft a poem it's okay if you write it to look like a paragraph or a chunk of prose. After you do some tinkering with sharpening the images and the language, you can simply draw slash marks where you think the line breaks should come." page 27-28: of the 4 examples of rhyming couplets given at the beginning of this chapter, 2 don't actually rhyme (spaghetti/ready; things/King). I have often been offended at the sloppiness of some poetry written for children, as though the poets don't think it matters whether a poem scans, rhymes, sounds beautiful or conveys an interesting thought, since the audience is not likely to be discriminating enough to know the difference. This book, to me, encourages children (and, unfortunately, their teachers) to buy into the "sloppy is OK so long as you call it poetry" attitude. ... |
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I Love This Book!! |
| I found this book a wonderful guide to writing poetry. I wrote most of my poems while reading this book. My friends love it as much as I do - they are all waiting in line to borrow it!!! If you need ideas or advice with your poems you should definately get this book!! Good luck with your writing. |
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