Poetry Rx (e-book) (used book) | Norman E. Rosenthal M. D. | bookbook.eu

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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 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

PART ONE
Loving and Losing

Chapter OneIs There an Art to Losing?
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

Chapter Two
Can Love Transform You?
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Chapter Three
The Heart versus the Mind
Pity me not because the light of day by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Chapter Four
Love in the Moment
Lullaby by W. H. Auden

Chapter Five
When Love Fades
Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert

Chapter Six
Getting Over a Breakup Acceptance
Why so pale and wan fond lover? by Sir John Suckling

Chapter Seven
Getting Over a Breakup Reclaiming Yourself
Love after Love by Derek Walcott

Chapter Eight
Declaring Your Love
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
by William Shakespeare

Chapter Nine
Consoled by Love
Sonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
by William Shakespeare

Chapter Ten
In Praise of the Marriage of True Minds
Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
by William Shakespeare

Chapter Eleven
Loss of a Loved One
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (Funeral Blues)
by W. H. Auden

Chapter Twelve
Will I Ever Feel Better?
Time Does Not Bring Relief by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Chapter Thirteen
Love Remembered
When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats

Chapter Fourteen
Love after Death
Remember by Christina Rossetti

PART TWO
That Inward Eye

Chapter Fifteen
Transcendence in Nature
Daffodils by William Wordsworth

Chapter Sixteen
The Memory of Daffodils
Miracle on St. David's Day by Gillian Clarke

Chapter SeventeenTranscendence in Body and Mind
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (excerpt)
by William Wordsworth

Chapter Eighteen
The Power of Dark and Light
There's a certain Slant of light by Emily Dickinson

Chapter Nineteen
In Praise of Diversity
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Chapter Twenty
Inversnaidby Gerard Manley Hopkins

Chapter Twenty-One
The Importance of Being Needed
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

Chapter Twenty-Two
The Choices We Make
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Chapter Twenty-Three
The Force of Longing
Sea Fever by John Masefield

Chapter Twenty-Four
Finding Hope in Nature
The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

PART THREE
The Human Experience

Chapter Twenty-Five
The Power of Hope
"Hope" is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson

Chapter Twenty-Six
Welcoming Your Emotions
The Guest House by Jalaluddin Rumi (Translated by Coleman Barks)

Chapter Twenty-SevenThe Healing Power of Reconciliation
Out beyond Ideas by Jalaluddin Rumi(Translated by Coleman Barks)

Chapter Twenty-Eight
Leaving Home
Traveler, there is no road by Antonio Machado
Translated by Mary G. Berg and Dennis Maloney

Chapter Twen...