How to Read Poetry

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Tip 1 - How to Read a Poem

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Poetry primer - learn how to analyze poems, form, meter, imagery, or teach poetry
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For further reading: http://www.shmoop.com/poetry/how-to-read-poem/how-to-read.html ^[1]

Tip 2 - Reading a Poem: 20 Strategies

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Katya Linossi | permalink

A guide for the perplexed
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For further reading: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/11/how-to-read-poetry-a-step-by-step-guide/380657/ ^[2]

Tip 3 - How to Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Shelly Sanders | permalink

Learn how to read poems and poetry with the Learning Lab's annotated poems, discussion questions, poetics essays and teaching resources. Find new children's authors. Take a literature themed tour of Chicago or Washington DC.

For further reading: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/article/245464 ^[3]