If Poetry Hurts Your Brain, Consider This
A simple exercise to get you into poetry
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(1) The Idea: Turn On The Music
Most people (including me) struggle with poetry, and most complaints boil down to this:
“It’s written in English, and I speak English, but why does it read like Greek to me?”
It’s strange. Somehow, any word that gets jammed into those weird stanzas now has the power to escape wide-awake meaning. And for the headstrong types who want to make sense of everything, poetry remains a sore spot.
I’ve to admit that I’ve never found my groove with poetry, not even after an entire English degree. So, I decided to talk to so-called poetry people and see what all the fuss is about. I bribed professors with coffee, M.A.s with lunch and poets with a week’s rent, and the consensus was clear:
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