Poetry for Students

x Poetry for Students

of our emotions. Practice is just another word for

being a student. The information given here helps

you understand the way to read poetry; what to look

for, what to expect.

With all of this in mind, I really don’t think I

would actually like to have a poet’s job at all. There

are too many skills involved, including precision,

honesty, taste, courage, linguistics, passion, com-

passion, and the ability to keep all sorts of people

entertained at once. And that is just what they do

with one hand, while the other hand pulls some sort

of trick that most of us will never fully understand.

I can’t even pack all that I need for a weekend into

one suitcase, so what would be my chances of stuff-

ing so much life into a few lines? With all that Po-

etry for Studentstells us about each poem, I am

impressed that any poet can finish three or four po-

ems a year. Read the inside stories of these poems,

and you won’t be able to approach any poem in the

same way you did before.

David J. Kelly

College of Lake County

Foreword

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