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  2. Understanding Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Their book, and its companion volume, Understanding Fiction (1943), revolutionized the teaching of literature in the universities and spawned a host of imitators who dominated English departments well into the 1960s." [2] Even those who are highly critical of the textbook's approach to poetry have acknowledged the reach and influence of the volume.

  3. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Punctuation is an object of interpretation in poetry; it is semantic. [4] In poetry, they act as non-verbal tools of poetic expression. A form of artistic choice, the poet's choice of punctuation is central to our understanding of poetic meaning because of its ability to influence prosody. The unorthodox use of punctuation increases the ...

  4. Didacticism - Wikipedia

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    An example of didacticism in music is the chant Ut queant laxis, which was used by Guido of Arezzo to teach solfege syllables. Around the 19th century the term didactic came to also be used as a criticism for work that appears to be overburdened with instructive, factual, or otherwise educational information, to the detriment of the enjoyment ...

  5. Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes - Wikipedia

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    Written by a speech-language pathologist and a learning disabilities educator, Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes is a language textbook for elementary and intermediate-level students. [1] [2] Jan Roebken created the cover and additional interior illustrations. [1] The book reprints fifty-seven Calvin and Hobbes comic strips, organized into five ...

  6. Poetry analysis - Wikipedia

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    A writer learning the craft of poetry might use the tools of poetry analysis to expand and strengthen their own mastery. [4] A reader might use the tools and techniques of poetry analysis in order to discern all that the work has to offer, and thereby gain a fuller, more rewarding appreciation of the poem. [5]

  7. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Within this form of poetry the most important variations are "folk song" styled verse , "old style" verse , "modern style" verse . In all cases, rhyming is obligatory. The Yuefu is a folk ballad or a poem written in the folk ballad style, and the number of lines and the length of the lines could be irregular.

  8. A Defence of Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Shelley’s argument for poetry is an important text of English Romanticism. In 1858, William Stigant, a poet, essayist, and translator, wrote in his essay "Sir Philip Sidney" [ 7 ] that Shelley's "beautifully written Defence of Poetry " is a work which "analyses the very inner essence of poetry and the reason of its existence, – its ...

  9. Textbook - Wikipedia

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    A textbook is a book containing a comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study with the intention of explaining it. Textbooks are produced to meet the needs of educators, usually at educational institutions, but also of learners (who could be independent learners outside of formal education).