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How to ‘get’ a poem
You can read a poem to yourself
and hear it in your head.
What’s different if you then decide
to read out loud instead?
Try it! Go on – you try it!
It’s a really great, good way
to give the words another chance
to mean what they must say.
To feel the poem’s rhythm,
the beating of its very heart,
go inside and let it lead you
through its story from the start.
And when you’re done, you decide
which way you think sounds better.
Inside your head or shout it out?
You are a poetry go-getter!