Painless Poetry (Barron's Painless)

Really. This isn't going to hurt at all... If you've hated every poem you've ever had to read, get ready for a pleasant surprise! Reading and writing poetry can be a rewarding experience-especially when you start out in a spirit of fun. This book shows you how poets from many different eras have used words imaginatively, both in rhymed and metered verse and in free verse. You'll find humorous poems and serious poems, and you'll get ideas for letting your imagination run free as you learn to write many different kinds. Open this book, and you'll begin to understand that poetry isn't merely painless-it's also fun!Mary Elizabeth is the author of 'Painless Poetry (Barron's Painless)', published 2001 under ISBN 9780764116148 and ISBN 0764116142.