A Letter To My Dear God.

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© Luguma Nyalali
First Printed 2016.

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FOREWORD

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

INTRODUCTION


THEORY OF POETRY



FOREWORD.

This book gives both students and teachers of different levels information and an insight , they need in order to link the theory of poetry to the overall steps and procedures which are to be taken while one is reading, interpreting, and analyzing and writing poetry in general. It also has important contribution to our knowledge and understanding of different subjects like love, marriage, neo colonialism, Democracy and globalisation. Because this version embodies different themes reflecting our con temporality. Moreover the book offers benefit to our understanding that poetry as a literary genre draws much its attention to the connotative meaning rather than denotative meaning of the words. And therefore, it needs much power for a reader to assign an appropriate meaning and adhere to actual coded symbols on its meaning.
Finally, although this first edition of poetry draws a wide range of sources to show how poetry should be interpreted and analyzed but the version also makes a considerable use of examples from modern poems.

Preface.

CONTENTS OF THE BOOK.

* meaning of poetry/terms, and general characteristics
* Identify types of poems, and poetry in general
* Paraphrase selected poems
* Describe the main ideas or themes using evidence from selected poems
* Discuss poetic devices used in the selected poems

Writing Poems.


#Tips For Teachers.

Before you start an act of writing or reciting or composing poems. It is better one has to try these tips with his/ her students.

√ Give option to your students to select a topic of their interest each student.
√ Give them guideline on how we compose poems.
Nb.Limit them if necessary on the length of the poem everyone has to compose.
√ After they have already composed their poems, select few poems as a case study to be dramatized by few students or single group in the classroom.
√ Tell them to rewrite their poems after they have corrected and you have already marked them.

#Tips For students.

√ As a student try these tips before you collect your poem to your teacher.
√ Identify title and the type of your poem.
√ Select the main message/ themes.
√ Organise the poem into stanzas and sequence with good coherence.
√ Write the poem using appropriate figures of speech, tone and voice.


IDENTIFY, SELECTION, ORGANISATION, & WRITING.



Introduction.
Meaning


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Chapter II
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Chapter III.
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Chapter IV.
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Chapter V.
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References.

Index.