Unit One How Does a Poem Work��
Section 1 Line Arrangement and Appreciation
Section 2 Words and Meanings
Section 3 Inversion and Foregrounding
Section 4 Recurrence and Patterning

Unit Two The Techniques of Verse
Section 1 Rhythm
Section 2 Meter
Section 3 Rhyme
Section 4 Sound

Unit Three Components of Poetry
Section 1 Speaker
Section 2 Setting
Section 3 Subject and Theme

Unit Four Sense of Poetry
Section 1 Abstraction and Concretion
Section 2 Image and Imagery

Unit Five Figurative Language
Section 1 The Literal and the Figurative
Section 2 Simile and Metaphor
Section 3 Personification
Section 4 Symbols
Section 5 Irony and Satire

Glossary of Poetic Terms
Key to Exercises
Bibliography