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Thread: How often do you read poetry, and what kind?
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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I admit that I don't read poetry every day. There have been times in my life when I read a bit more of it, I guess it comes and goes in waves.
When I do read poetry, I usually prefer the abstract kind, where words aren't used as 1:1 metaphors, but rather collaborate to convey emotions on a subconscious level. There are a number of Latin American poets who do this.
When reading poetry, I usually stick to one poem a day, before sleeping. I'm also adamant in that I never drink beer while reading poetry. A good wine or whisky are much better options.
Do you read poetry often? How do you read it? And what kind?
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Opportune thread, LeRoc. I came across this poem by Carol Ann Duffy while looking for something else, as you do. Recommended if you feel the need of a slight cry.
That is probably my favoured way of reading at the moment - coming upon things, clicking random links - both to stuff I know and stuff I don't. That being so, I am not preferring any one style - except that I regularly read poetry in Scots: This is one of my favourite sites.
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Penny S
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Not as often as I should, and I don't listen to it much, because I find the special voice for reading poetry irritating.
I do hope I didn't do that to the children at school when I read them Allan Ahlberg.
The Mrs Butler Blues
Actually, I used to sing that one. They've split the verses wrongly.
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Ariel
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Reading poetry's not a daily habit. It tends to be triggered off by coming across a random quote, looking it up, and finding a variety of other poems.
It can happen in odd places. The Poems on the Underground, printed clearly and slotted in between the ads on the upper wall of a Tube carriage, have been a welcome diversion and introduction to new verses. But a line or so in a book, or a quote printed on someone's shopping bag, or perhaps a half-remembered line will send me to the internet or to books.
And sometimes, you know, you just need a bit of Yeats before dinner, or a chunk of Eliot if you're out of sorts, maybe a few bits of Kipling in the afternoon or a piece of MacNeice to chew over and extract the meaning and the imagery from.
A good poem is one that stops you in your tracks and makes you think, or smile, and sends you on your way, having made you see things a little differently for a moment. It's one whose lines will echo in your mind at intervals throughout the years, popping up at odd, appropriate moments; one that keeps you company, and over the years becomes an old, familiar friend.
Though what makes a good poem is different for everybody.
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