Building Poems Student Book: Second Edition - Softcover

Michael Clay Thompson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 089824708X ISBN 13: 9780898247084

Publisher: Royal Fireworks Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Building Poems, the second book of Michael Clay Thompson's poetry series, uses architecture as an extended metaphor, showing that poems are constructed like buildings, with careful attention to every detail. Like the metaphor itself, the book is constructed so that it beautifully illustrates the points made by reinforcing them visually. This book takes the same basic topics that were introduced in The Music of the Hemispheres and expands upon them, adding new elements. It includes alliteration, assonance, consonance, end rhyme, rhyme scheme, internal rhyme, eye-rhyme, poetic feet, iambs, trochees, anapests, dactyls, spondees, sonnets, ballads, rime royal, limericks, similes, metaphors, personification, apostrophe, and endstopped versus enjambed lines. These elements are exhibited in the poems of famous poets such as Lewis Carroll, T.S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Keats, Edward Lear, Walt Whitman, Lord Byron, Robert Frost, Henry Longfellow, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Shakespeare, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The book enables students to understand and appreciate poetry on a far higher level than usual. It can be used as a stand-alone introduction to poetry for young students or to set the stage for a more advanced program in middle or high school. The second edition of this book includes QR codes that link to audio of Michael reading the poems in the book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Royal Fireworks Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 089824708X
• ISBN 13: 9780898247084
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 129