Understanding poetry
by Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren · first published 1938
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Narrative and descriptive poems exemplifying the key elements are presented and analyzed.
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I would recommend 'Understanding Poetry' by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, as a good introduction, it also includes a reasonable collection of poems from various poets to appreciate. I would also suggest getting an anthology like 'The…
on “Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?” ↗May be you could try it once again, I found that I couldn't get it too while I was younger. The work that greatly helped me to appreciate poetry better was, "Understanding Poetry" by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brookes.
on “Feeling stuck? Write a poem” ↗Getting a good text book like Cleanth Brookes/Robert Penn Warren "Understanding Poetry" would be the way I suggest to get into reading poetry. Also getting a good anthology like Palgrave's or Anthony QuillerCouch, that covers a lot of poems and poets from different eras in small portable…
on “On getting poetry” ↗…Systems: A Programmer's Perspective by Randall Bryant and others. 5. Prolog Programming by Ivan Bratko. 6. Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms by David MacKay 7. Geometry by Brennan. 8. Understanding Poetry by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brookes
on “Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?” ↗Thanks for sharing, my own experience with poetry seems a similar once: once I am older it seems to make it more sense. Reading "Understanding Poetry" by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks was also a big influence. Also collecting anthologies has helped.
on “A Bird Translates Silence: Wong May updates the Tang Dynasty poets” ↗> The few beautiful parts that you can't not like is indeed Mozart, but the rest is not. This strikes me as a bit too much in the vein of Pritchard's Understanding Poetry [1]. Sussmyer et al are not in Mozart's league for sure but the notion (and I'm exaggerating here not trying to straw man you) that near every note he wrote is false and everthing Mozart touched is gold…
on “Why Is Art Expensive?” ↗