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1 How to Read a Poem (& Maybe Fall in Love with Poetry) Are Poems “Open to Interpretation”? That depends on what you mean by “open for interpretation.” Picture this: A politician says, “I won’t support this bill because it will hurt the middle class.” You hear that and maybe you think, “Yeah, right. Or this: You ask a professor a simple question about quadratic equations and she spends half an hour tracing the origin of mathematics through the middle ages all the way back to ancient Greece. So

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• 1 How to Read a Poem (& Maybe Fall in Love with Poetry)
• 2 Poetic Language
• 3 Poetry as Conversation
• 5 Poetic Form: Open and Closed
• 8 The Romantic Era
• 9 Modernism and After, the Twentieth Century

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