In this post I would like to invite you to read and ponder on a poem by one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, Robert Frost. It is titled โOctoberโ, first published in England in 1913, in a largely autobiographical collection of poems called A Boyโs Will. O hushed October morning mild,Thy leaves …
Discussing Wordsworth’s poem ‘The Tables Turned’
In an earlier post about interpreting poetry, I tried to convince my readers of the merits of reading poems and enjoying them as a form of art. There I also presented a six-step approach to interpreting poems that I will be referring to throughout this article, so you might want to have a look at …
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How to interpret a poem (with a little help from Walt Whitman)
Reading poetry can be a challenging task, and itโs understandable why most language learners never even think about incorporating it into their reading and learning habits. But, daunting as it may seem at first, reading poetry is exactly what I would encourage you to do.ย
