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As you will probably have been told many times by your class teacher, poetry is a form of literary art that should be heard as much as read; it has its roots in sound and rhythm, which is why it shares so much with the quality of music. Try therefore to think as much about the way a poem (or sometimes prose extract) works its magic simply through the kinds of lyrical noises that poetic language can make as you do...

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