ML: How to Read a Poem "Poetry ... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance." Poetry Quote by John KeatsEnglish Poet (1795-1821)
Guidelines for Reading Poetry Look for punctuation; it will tell you how to read the poem. Do not stop reading at the end of a line. Look up words you don’t understand. Every word counts. Reread the poem. Poems are meant to be recited (read aloud). “You should try to hear the poem with your ears, as well as understand it with your mind, and feel it with your heart”.
Guideline 1
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Short Short Pause Pause
Look for punctuation. It will tell you how to read the poem.
More Practice
Guideline 2
Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.
Keep Reading
You do not need a knife or fork or spoon or plate or napkin or tablecloth. For there is no core or stem or rind or pit or seed or skin to throw away.
Keep Reading Past Lines
Do not stop reading at the end of a line.
Keep Reading
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Still More Practice Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon or plate or napkin or tablecloth. For there is no core or stem or rind or pit or seed or skin to throw away.
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Look up words you don’t understand. Every word counts.
Guideline 4
Wait, there’s More Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon or plate or napkin or tablecloth. For there is no core or stem or rind or pit or seed or skin to throw away.
Reread the poem.
Guideline 5
Wait, there’s More Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon or plate or napkin or tablecloth. For there is no core or stem or rind or pit or seed or skin to throw away.
Poems are meant to be recited (read aloud). Possibly to music.