Poetry Rx - Norman E. Rosenthal - Bog - G&D Media - Plusbog.dk
" I used to believe that poetry did not “speak” to me, but I now see how wrong I was. I lived for 44 years with a husband, a lyricist, whose beautifully crafted, heartfelt lyrics touched my every fiber and continue to uplift and inspire me a decade after his death. The special beauty of Dr. Rosenthal’s book for me is his discussion of what each poem is saying, what the poet was likely feeling and often how the poems helped him personally, as when he left his birth family in South Africa for a rewarding career in the United States. " - Jane Brody , Author & New York Times Columnist Poetry to Heal, Inspire and Enjoy Poetry Rx presents 50 great poems as seen through the eyes of a renowned psychiatrist and New York Times bestseller. In this book, you will find insights into love, sorrow, ecstasy and everything in between: Love in the moment or for a lifetime; love that is fulfilling or addictive; when to break up and how to survive when someone breaks up with you.Separate sections deal with responses to the natural world, and the varieties of human experience (such as hope, reconciliation, leaving home, faith, self-actualization, trauma, anger, and the thrill of discovery). Other sections involve finding your way in the world and the search for meaning, as well as the final stages of life.In describing this multitude of human experiences, using vignettes from his work and life, Rosenthal serves as a comforting guide to these poetic works of genius. Through his writing, the workings of the mind, as depicted by these gifted writers speak to us as intimately as our closest friends.Rosenthal also delves into the science of mind and brain. Who would have thought, for example, that listening to poetry can cause people to have goosebumps by activating the reward centers of the brain? Yet research shows that to be true.And who were these fascinating poets? In a short biosketch that accompanies each poem, Rosenthal draws connections between the poets and their poems that help us understand the enigmatic minds that gave birth to these masterworks. Altogether, a fulfilling and intriguing must-read for anyone interested in poetry, the mind, self-help and genius. CONTENTS Introduction PART ONE Loving and LosingChapter OneIs There an Art to Losing?One Art by Elizabeth Bishop Chapter TwoCan Love Transform You?How do I love thee? Let me count the ways by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Chapter ThreeThe Heart versus the MindPity me not because the light of day by Edna St. Vincent Millay Chapter FourLove in the MomentLullaby by W. H. Auden Chapter FiveWhen Love FadesFailing and Flying by Jack Gilbert Chapter SixGetting Over a Breakup I: AcceptanceWhy so pale and wan fond lover? by Sir John Suckling Chapter SevenGetting Over a Breakup II: Reclaiming YourselfLove after Love by Derek Walcott, Chapter EightDeclaring Your LoveSonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? by William Shakespeare Chapter NineConsoled by LoveSonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes by William Shakespeare Chapter TenIn Praise of the Marriage of True MindsSonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare Chapter ElevenLoss of a Loved OneStop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (Funeral Blues) by W. H. Auden Chapter TwelveWill I Ever Feel Better? Time Does Not Bring Relief by Edna St. Vincent Millay Chapter ThirteenLove RememberedWhen You Are Old by William Butler Yeats Chapter FourteenLove after DeathRemember by Christina Rossetti, PART TWO That Inward EyeChapter FifteenTranscendence in NatureDaffodils by William Wordsworth Chapter SixteenThe Memory of DaffodilsMiracle on St. David’s Day by Gillian Clarke Chapter SeventeenTranscendence in Body and MindLines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (excerpt) by William Wordsworth Chapter EighteenThe Power of Dark and LightThere’s a certain Slant of light by Emily Dickinson Chapter NineteenIn Praise of DiversityPied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins Chapter TwentyA Plea to Save the Natural WorldInversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins Chapter Twenty-OneThe Importance of Being NeededStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Chapter Twenty-TwoThe Choices We MakeThe Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Chapter Twenty-ThreeThe Force of LongingSea Fever by John Masefield Chapter Twenty-FourFinding Hope in NatureThe Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy PART THREE The Human ExperienceChapter Twenty-Five The Power of Hope “Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson Chapter Twenty-SixWelcoming Your EmotionsThe Guest House by Jalaluddin Rumi Translated by Coleman Barks Chapter Twenty-SevenThe Healing Power of ReconciliationOut beyond Ideas by Jalaluddin Rumi (Translated by Coleman Barks) Chapter Twenty-EightLeaving HomeTraveler, there is no road by Antonio Machado Translated by Mary G. Berg and Dennis MaloneyChapter Twenty-NineAnd Those You Leave BehindLetter to My Mother by Salvatore Quasimodo Translated by Jack BevanChapter ThirtyThe I
