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The Roar on the Other Side: A Guide for Student Poets

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I have never really been one to 'enjoy' poetry. I have one favorite (Love Sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning) and can make a poem rhyme but I never understood the feeling and passion that goes into poetry.

This book is one that I am going to be going through with my daughter for her 9th grade year but I read it myself to check the content. Here is what can be expected from this book:
Sight Training, Beauty of Words (Real Toads), Metaphors, Paradox, Irony, Symbolism, Musical Thought, Rhythm, Sonnets, Haikus, Syllabic Verse, Stanzas (Couplet, Quatrain, Tercet (Triplet), Rime Royal, Spenserian, Parallelism (Synonymous, Antithetic, Synthetic), Villanelle, Sestina, Pantoum), Genres (Lyric, Narrative, Epic, Ballad, Elegy, Dramatic Dialogue, Didactic), Matters of Voice, Writing, Reading and Revising, Select Poems

This book has no pictures and if it did I would almost say that it'd be a bad thing; it would ruin the image you create on your own through poetry. Each chapter has at least one Stepping Stone exercise to do that deals with the subject of the chapter. For instance in chapter 1, Sight Training, the activity is to describe fruit with words that convey more than just an image but feelings and 'meanings'.

A book that will engage your student (or yourself) in the action of reading and writing poetry. This book is also from a Christian perspective which I find to be refreshing. The selected poets/poetry are ones that many are familiar with but there may be some that are not so familiar, which is also good.