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Keyser, Samuel Jay – College English, 1976
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Formal Criticism, Literary Criticism, Literary Styles
Hollingworth, Brian – Use of English, 1991
Discusses the poetry of the West Indian author Edward Kamau Brathwaite. Explores Brathwaite's use of the oral mode to emphasize the African tradition in the Caribbean voice. (PRA)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Poets
Sloan, Thomas O. – 1969
The ability to think of poetry rhetorically is a valuable instrument for interpreting poetry. The poet is the speaker "of" the poem, the persona the speaker "in" the poem. The communicative circle is complete when it includes the reader who combines an analysis of the text (the words of the persona) with an analysis of the…
Descriptors: Characterization, Critical Reading, Interpretive Reading, Literary Criticism