Take Time To Read Poetry
Enrich Your Life With Poetry By Pat Whelton | Submitted On August 25, 2011 2 Poetry has a long history from the 3rd millennium BC. It has been written in various forms. It enters and exits our presence as we make this short journey through life. Sometimes it can be vague and overpowering when presented in the wrong light. In both second and third level education poems are discussed in a way which makes many feel they lack the equipment or the innate ability to respond. A poem is supposed to have a "meaning" which can be paraphrased or re-stated. It is assumed there are beauties which only the properly trained reader can discern. These may be in the way of minute verbal effects invisible to the ordinary reader, or, they may take the form of ambiguities and subtleties which were overlooked by the reader until the critic got to work. And almost always there is a "correct" way of responding to a poem of which the teacher or critic is...