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Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End

by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

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A scholarly study examining how poems achieve closure and the techniques poets use to signal endings.

ISBN-13 9780226763439 ASIN 0226763439 Views 34 Publisher University of Chicago Press Year 2007 Edition 2nd Impression, 1970 Format Paperback Product Group Book Pages 289 Adult No Created March 02, 2026 Updated September 08, 2026

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Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End explores the structural and aesthetic dimensions of poetic conclusions.

The work analyzes how poets signal resolution and finality within verse forms.

Barbara Herrnstein Smith investigates closure across a range of poetic traditions and periods.

The study emphasizes formal techniques that shape a reader’s sense of an ending.

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