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You Don’t Have to Read between the Lines

To teach poetry successfully, focus initially on what is being said and why people care about it. The form of the poem should come last.

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Rolled Round with Rocks, Stones and Trees

William Wordsworth        One day Robinson Crusoe, the next William Blake, the next William Wordsworth.  Thanks to four or five classes cancelled due to snow, my Introduction to Literature class is careening through the 18th and early 19th centuries.  But we still had time to stop and contemplate Wordsworth’s wondrous lyric “A slumber did my spirit […]

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