Preface 1. Word Choice 2. Syntax and the Poetic Line 3. Images: Simile and Metaphor 4. Metaphor and the Sonnet 5. The Sonnet 6. Poetic Conventions 7. More Verse Forms 8. Personification 9. Poetic Voice 10. Gender and Poetic Voice 11. Poetic Rhythm: Metric 12. Poetic Rhythm: Sound and Rhyme 13. Rhetoric: More Tropes 14. Incomplete Figures and the Art of Reading Appendix Glossary Bibliographical Backgrounds Index of Poems Index of Poets Index of Terms and Topics