Mere Air, These Words, but Delicious to Hear
Poetry can be intimidating exactly because every word has intent. Extracting the hidden meaning or intent from the poetic is challenging, but it's sort of what the experience of poetry is all about. As Kipling wrote:
To help explorers of poetry, the Poetry Foundation has reprinted the first chapter from the book How to Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch. Its 16 sections provide strategies for reading poems, and each section has plenty of links to example poems to illustrate the points given by the guide.
Something hidden. Go and find it.An enthusiast of poetry is an explorer of words. Something hidden, go and find it. Go!
Go and look behind the Ranges-
Something lost behind the Ranges.
Lost and waiting for you. Go!
To help explorers of poetry, the Poetry Foundation has reprinted the first chapter from the book How to Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch. Its 16 sections provide strategies for reading poems, and each section has plenty of links to example poems to illustrate the points given by the guide.
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