[整理版]How to Read a Poem

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5、try to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊poetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get together and read poetry to

6、 each other. a poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a song was meant to be sung. how to read a poemhow to read a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get together and read poetry to each oth

7、er. a poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊in order to read poetry well, one needs to know a little about prosody. poems can be broken down into 3 parts; (1) the stanza: a grou

8、p of lines set off from the other lines in a poem. it is the poetic equivalent of a paragraph in prose. in traditional poems, the stanza usually contains a unit of thought, much like a paragraph in prose. (2) the line: a single line of poetry. (3) the foot: a syllable or a group of 2 or 3 syllables.

9、 to scan a line of poetry one counts the number of feet in a line. for a beginner, the easiest thing to do is to count the number of stresses. typically a foot will contain a stressed and an unstressed syllable. this does not always work, but it will work often enough to give one the feeling of the

10、poem. in verse (traditional, formal poetry), there will be a regular pattern to the rhythm. often, all the lines in a poem will contain the same number of feet. for example, in a sonnet, usually all the lines will have 5 feet. in many cases, though, a poet might alternate between lines with 4 feet a

11、nd lines with 3 feet. and in other cases, the patterns will be more complicated. eight steps for reading a poem are offered here:how to read a poemhow to read a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get together and read poetry to each other. a po

12、em was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊step 1. read from the very beginning to the very end of the poem. in this way, try to get a sense of the poem.how to read a poemhow to read a

13、 poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get together and read poetry to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊s

14、tep 2. identify the sentence structure, for poetry at times consists of complicated sentences.how to read a poemhow to read a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get together and read poetry to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of langua

15、ge that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊step 3. read the poem carefully to figure out the meter. note how many stressed syllables and unstressed syllables there are in a particular line.how to read a poemhow to read

16、a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get together and read poetry to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊

17、step 4. read the poem out loud. pay attention to the rhyme scheme and try to follow the rhythm.how to read a poemhow to read a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get together and read poetry to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of langu

18、age that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊step 5. look up new and unknown words in a dictionary.how to read a poemhow to read a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people t

19、o get together and read poetry to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊step 6. mark off any sections in the poem. these sections may be speeches given by a charac

20、ter, discussions of a particular topic, changes in mood, or a new stage of an argument.how to read a poemhow to read a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get together and read poetry to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of language that

21、 conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊step 7. analyze the tone and speaker of the poem.how to read a poemhow to read a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get togethe

22、r and read poetry to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊step 8. re-read the poem.how to read a poemhow to read a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and hear

23、d. in the past, it was common for people to get together and read poetry to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊reading poetry shares some similarities with read

24、ing fiction, drama and essay. one should perceive details of action and language, make connections, associations and inferences, and draw conclusions finally. one should also make use of his intelligence to arouse his emotional response based upon his general experience with life and literature. any

25、how, reading poetry presents a problem of its own. the difference comprises a readers being more alert to the connotations of words, more responsive to the expressive qualities of sound and rhythm in line and stanza, more perceptive about details of syntax and punctuation. these high-demanded qualit

26、ies in reading poetry are necessary and essential on account of the density and compression of poetry in itself. a prerequisite to learn reading poetry well and appreciating its beauty is to learn to ask questions about how one feels about poems, how he interprets them, and how he evaluates them. su

27、ch questions can be the following:how to read a poemhow to read a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get together and read poetry to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so

28、橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊1. what emotion does the poem evoke? in what sensations, associations, and memories does it result?how to read a poemhow to read a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get together a

29、nd read poetry to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊2. what ideas does the poem convey? in what way does it express, explicitly or implicitly? what sense does

30、it make? what does it suggest?how to read a poemhow to read a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get together and read poetry to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭

31、韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊3. whats the poets perspective of the world? is it in agreement with yours? whats your opinion about the poets perspective? does it influence your own way of understanding the poem? how to read a poemhow to read a poempoetry is written to b

32、e read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get together and read poetry to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊dictionhow to read a poemhow

33、 to read a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get together and read poetry to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列

34、抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊 diction is the choice of words, or the kind of words chosen, in a given passage. poetry contains “the best words in the best order”. in reading any poem it is necessary to know what the words mean, but it is equally important to understand what the words imply or suggest. every word has at

35、 least one denotation: a meaning as defined in a dictionary. but the english language has many a common word with so many denotations that a reader may need to think twice to see what it means in a specific context. a word also has connotations: overtones or suggestions of additional meaning that it

36、 gains from all the contexts in which a reader has met it in the past. how to read a poemhow to read a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get together and read poetry to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data;

37、it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊because poets often hint indirectly at more than their words directly state, it is necessary to develop the habit of considering the connotations of words as well as their denotations. often for both

38、 the poet and the reader the “best words” are those that do the most work; they convey feelings and indirectly imply ideas rather than state them outright. poets choose a particular word because it suggests what they want to suggest. its appropriateness is a function of both its denotation and its c

39、onnotation. how to read a poemhow to read a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get together and read poetry to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广

40、善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊william wordsworth (1770-1850)how to read a poemhow to read a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get together and read poetry to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data;

41、 it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊 i wandered lonely as a cloud1how to read a poemhow to read a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common for people to get together and read poetry to each other. a

42、 poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊i wandered lonely as a cloudhow to read a poemhow to read a poempoetry is written to be read aloud and heard. in the past, it was common f

43、or people to get together and read poetry to each other. a poem was not simply a piece of language that conveyed data; it was meant to be heard the way a so橱饲瞪铭韵毕傣陶着叮阜抱金宿澜框熄羹忠蕉赁广善侦激亡证拆榆不皖炮窗踏虽撬缠窃拙六吁侥莆早懊蠢娄泌窜峭琐促梁眩列抑腑匡茂臂胡翱裙啊that floats on high2 oer vales and hills,how to read a poemhow to read a poempoe

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