However, How to Read a Poem is appealing proof that an intimate response to something as potentially private as a poem – at least, when that response is as schooled and thoughtful as that provided by ...

Read the poem aloud again for a second time. What do they think the poem is about? How do they know? Underline words or phrases in the text that help them to work out the meaning of the poem.

At one time or another, when face-to-face with a poem, most everyone has been perplexed. The experience of reading a poem itself is as likely to turn us off, intellectually or emotionally, as it ...

At one time or another, when face-to-face with a poem, most everyone has been perplexed. The experience of reading a poem itself is as likely to turn us off, intellectually or emotionally, as it is to ...

John Ernest, chair of the Department of English at the University of Delaware, wants to bring poetry to life, so sometimes he’ll start his classes with a dramatic reading of a poem. On more than one ...

Reading poetry can be a daunting affair. In Australian Poetry Month, an expert shows us how one poem works – and what it reveals.

Cambridge students were asked in an exam to write about a poem which included no words, just punctuation. How would you go about making sense of it, asks Jon Kelly. Turn over your papers, please ...