How did you guys figured out poetry theory

[Anonymous No.16655599]

Like tone, rhythm, metres and how to read out loud etc. I am confused with this stuff can you frands help me

[Anonymous No.16655619]

>>16655599
This is also of interest to me

Any uni level 'intro to theory' books?

[Anonymous No.16655745]

>>16655599
>>16655619
That's not "theory".
Stop using the word "theory" outside of specific scientific and even more specific philosophical contexts.

The subjects you're looking are called Versification, Rhetoric and Diction. You can start by reading "Writing Metrical Poetry", by William Baer and "Rhyme's Reason", by John Hollander, among many other books. You can also read Alexander Pope, Horace, Aristotle and Longinus.

As for developing a good diction, listen to the recording of Dylan Thomas, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Sir John Gielgud etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmDoT1TXV3k

[Anonymous No.16655839]

>>16655745
Ty fren

[Anonymous No.16655925]

>>16655745
Don't read Pope. Read his major works over summer and the most presumptions shite ever. It is very stylised language, but you're honestly better off reading Donne or something

[Anonymous No.16655987]

>the most presumptions shite ever
you're honestly better off not reading Donne

[Anonymous No.16656024]

>>16655987
pick one:
>One of Donne's metaphysical sonnets about him being depressed af
or
>such classics as Pope's "house of fame", "the dunciad", "elosia and abelard".

(Essay on criticism is pretty good, essay on man is mostly good but frontloaded. He did a pastoral on the Thames valley that is pretty good. Just wouldn't recommend Pope to a beginner, he's such a strange man)

[Anonymous No.16656030]

>>16656024
>house of fame
oops Pope's version is called temple of fame. Chaucher is pretty fun to read tho

[Anonymous No.16656070]

>>16656024
I was just making a joke about your retarded syntax and Donne's syntax. Though, I assume you just meant to write "presumptuous" instead.