Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.
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You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.
It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.
You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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