Resources for Poets
Articles on Reading Poetry
Checklist on the Craft of Poetry
(from Colby College Writing Program)
How to Read a Poem
(by George P. Landow, Prof. of English and Art History, Brown Univ.)
How to Read a Poem
(from Converse: The Literature Website of the Univ. of Cambridge)
How to Read a Poem
(pdf fact sheet)
The Poem as a Marble, or, How to Read a Poem
(by Sidney Hall, Jr.)
Reading a Poem
(English 200 handout)
Reading Poems: Section 1, The Power of Poems and the Difficulties in Poems
(by Hank Gutman, Prof. of English, Univ. of VT)
Reading Poems: Section 2, You Can Read a Poem, The Guidelines Elaborated
(by Hank Gutman, Prof. of English, Univ. of VT)
Reading Poetry
(from The Writing Center at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Six Suggestions for Mollifying the Old Malady, "a poem can mean anything you want it to mean"
Step-by-Step Method of Thoroughly Explicating a Poem
(by Helen Vendler, from
Poems Poets Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology
)
Three Ways to Read a Poem
(by William Harris, Prof. Em. Middlebury College)
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