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An Introduction to Poetry is a book chalked full of poems that shows the basics of poetry. From poetic devices to basic flow of poems, this book has it all. The book overall is very inspiring and really encourages the reader to write poems over the course of reading this book. The book has poems from the classic era all the way to modern, with lots of really great poems that give an example about the poetic device that the book explains.

There was almost every single figurative device in this book, really teaching me more deeply about the poetic devices and how to form together a good poem. On that stood out to me was the almost obsessive amount of rhyming.

This book was very eye-opening and while it did explain lots of the poetry very well, it lacked any fun and I got bored of the book really quick. It almost seemed to drag on like a thesis and used words that could have been removed and had the same meaning.