Poetry Is Difficult: why we pretend to get it and how to actually get it

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Let's stop pretending. For most of us, poetry is difficult to read and often even boring. But we still wish we could get it and join the ranks of those sophisticated, intellectual romantic types! Well, here's how. . . BOOK: Helping the Dreamer / Anne Waldman The Essential Classics Reading List - https://blogbyrootz.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-essential-classics-reading-list.html Some starter poems: Annabel Lee (Edgar Allan Poe) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44885/annabel-lee Because I could not stop for death (Emily Dickinson) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47652/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death-479 Caged Bird (Maya Angelou) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48989/caged-bird The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost) - https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-road-not-taken/ The Highway Man (Alfred Noyes) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43187/the-highwayman Best Society (Philip Larkin) - https://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/best_society_5891 Second Coming (William Butler Yeats) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming Some harder poems: If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you speak English better than 90% of the native English speakers - https://9gag.com/gag/aqZYMBv/if-you-can-pronounce-correctly-every-word-in-this-poem-you-speak-english-better-than-90-of-the-native-english-speakers The Lie (Anne Waldman) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43034/the-lie-56d221b48a40c In Favor of One’s Time (Frank O’Hara) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=28360 Pantoum (Marilyn Hacker) - https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/pantoum The Legacy (John Donne) - http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/john_donne/poems/7914 Twitter: https://twitter.com/ruthrootz Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ruthrootz/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ruthrootz/ Blog: Rootz’s Blog: https://blogbyrootz.blogspot.com Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/better-with-books/id1293449772?mt=2 Anchor: https://anchor.fm/betterwithbooks RadioPublic: https://play.radiopublic.com/better-with-books-WwDRqy Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=185181 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc-cBvKXkTgAyDLm7uYQaEQ?view_as=subscriber SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/betterwithbooks email: [email protected]