“Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.”
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.