Websites for Poetry

Read the following articles to give you an initial insight as to WHY we read poetry:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-lundberg/why-you-should-read-poetr_b_69184.html

http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/alowell/bl-alowell-whyweread.htm

For initial help on reading a poem, try these links:

http://www.shmoop.com/poetry/how-to-read-poem/how-to-read.html

For more help in understanding poetry, go directly to the Learning Lab, from The Poetry Foundation:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/feature.guidebook.hirsch.html