Poems That Reward a Second or Third or Ninety-fifth Reading
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Harold Bloom, whom I cite almost reflexively when writing about poetry, counseled memorization “as a first crux in how to read poems.” Once a staple of good teaching, memorization was abused into repeating by rote, and so was abandoned, wrongly. Silent intensive readings of a shorter poem that truly
Poems That Reward a Second or Third or Ninety-fifth Reading
Poems That Reward a Second or Third or…
Poems That Reward a Second or Third or Ninety-fifth Reading
Harold Bloom, whom I cite almost reflexively when writing about poetry, counseled memorization “as a first crux in how to read poems.” Once a staple of good teaching, memorization was abused into repeating by rote, and so was abandoned, wrongly. Silent intensive readings of a shorter poem that truly