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The Difficulty Sheet

The material described here is an attempt to deal with this eternal complaint from students. Complaints about difficulty can arise with any type of reasonably challenging text, but poetry by its very nature most often provokes rebellion. Why? So why should a language teacher even bother with poetry? There are a number of possible responses to that question, but on this page I would like to argue that teaching poetry...


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