English 1900 Study Guide - Lyric Poetry, Sound Poetry, Perfect And Imperfect Rhymes
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So many different ways of interpreting poems and can interpret the wrong ways. So much packed into a small space (feel intimidation) Some people want to just enjoy reading it and may feel that analyzing it just kills the experience. The point of a poem is how it is said. It is more about form than it is content. Understanding how a poem works allows us to respect it more and have more of an emotional response to it. Frequently believe there is a hidden meaning and finding the key will release everything. How we measure language is called accentual syllabic. Reading poetry out loud will help to better understand it. This is experimental poetry that began at the beginning of the. Allows a culture to speak of itself to itself. These long poems would be memorized and acted out. We would see all types of art mixing together. Development of inward turn and begin with development of lyric subject.