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Article for StudentsBy Edward Hirsch
Figures of speech and thought guide the interaction between poet and reader.
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Article for StudentsBy Edward Hirsch
Rhythm is a form cut into time, a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables that creates a feeling of fixity and flux, of surprise and inevitability.
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Article for StudentsBy Edward Hirsch
To read a poem is to depart from the familiar, to leave all expectations behind.
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Article for StudentsBy Edward Hirsch
A poem moves like a wave, dissolving the literal, and we experience its flow as it moves from the eye to the ear.
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Article for StudentsBy Edward Hirsch
The poem is something to look at, as well as to read and recite.