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  1. Feb 2025
    1. good listener

      How can I translate listening and observation skills to being a good reader. I am a good listener but suck at reading? How can I bridge the two?

    2. poet to control many aspects of language—tone, pace, rhythm, sound—as well as language’s effects: images, ideas, sensations.

      Poetry is more than language and sentence structure and grammar. Since poetry needs an audience, the author is responsible for the words read and how they are read.

      Poetry is more than words written, reading them aloud change the meaning

    3. And through this process, we have experiences that are new and that change us as much as any other experience can.

      The tone and how we read a poem changes the way we interpret its meaning. We can derive different emotions based on how we read the words to ourselves.

    1. Perhaps it exists in order to create that aesthetic experience

      An aesthetic way to simply and concisely summarize the human experience and deliver and entire story in a few short phrases to someone else. Maybe people can live vicariously through poetry.

    2. ntrinsically tied to music and many poems work with rhythm.

      Rhyming and music? I never thought of them being tied together but I think it makes sense. They are similar to songs.