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Finding & Singing: Ten Things to Notice When You Read a Poem

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Here are the ten qualities to notice about the next poem you read. By “poem,” I mean lyric poem, the shortest, most concentrated form of the poetic activity of representing human action in order to understand that action and, therefore, ourselves, one of the most delightful ways of fulfilling the Apollonian dictate, “Know thyself.” With [...]