Poetry and Humanity – Student Book (Second Edition)

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Poetry and Humanity is built on a theme of understanding humanity and our existence. It develops and expands the MCT poetics program by showing how poets push language to its maximum in order to express those things about us that are most true, or difficult, or subtle. Longer and more challenging poems appear as examples.

All of the topics from the previous volumes are included in this one, but this book also explores more advanced techniques. These include advanced rhymes such as half-double rhyme, elided rhyme, amphisbaenic rhyme, reverse rhyme, and apophany; advanced meters, from monometer to octameter; complex stanza forms, such as heroic couplets, terza rima, villanelles, quintets, sestets, octets, and submerged sonnets; and more involved figures of speech, including metonymy, synecdoche, and oxymorons.

The poems featured in the book are by such immortal poets as Thomas Hardy, William Blake, William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Algernon Swinburne, William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Cowper, Thomas Wyatt, William Wordsworth, and G.K. Chesterton, as well as original works by Michael himself.

As he has done with the other poetics books in this series, Michael beautifully illustrates the idea that poetry is not an art for the elite only. There are poems for everyone, and they can be lovely, or gritty, or heartbreaking, or amusing. And the best of them contain elements that make them memorable as well.

As a special feature, this book contains QR codes that link to audio of Michael reading the poems.

Companion Products:

Poetry and Humanity – Student Book
Poetry and Humanity – Teacher Manual
Poetry and Humanity Set

MCT Level 5: Complete Package
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