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    Poetry Guide: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    Poetry Guide: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    Poetry Guide: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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    Poetry Guide: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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    With experience they begin to learn the art of understanding and appreciating poetry. They develop tact, and ironically tact can’t be taught.

    Guide books, notes by the teachers, and summary books, etc. are often helpful, but the differing interpretations can also confuse students. I would like to tell the students of literature that there may be as many interpretations of the same poem as desired by the reviewers and critics, but it is sometimes very surprising that not even one interpretation stands close to
    the one which the poet had in his or her mind while writing the poem. We depend on the guess work and through the biography of the poet, the period, the ambiance, and some other contemporary factors.

    Don’t ever try to find the meanings of the words in a poem, just feel them, and you will realize with the time that you have learned the art of studying poetry. Poetry is all about emotion, interpretation, and feelings. A poet has no identity! Through your interpretation and the interpretations made by others you create your own little world around a poem and debate over
    certain points.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateSep 11, 2012
    ISBN9781301807475
    Poetry Guide: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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    Raja Sharma

    Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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      Poetry Guide - Raja Sharma

      Poetry Guide: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

      By Raja Sharma

      Copyright@2012 Raja Sharma

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      Chapter 1: Preface

      Students often find understanding and interpreting poetry an uphill task, for the allusions and references almost baffle them, however, with repeated and careful reading of the same poem, taking the help of the reference books and guides, brings them close to the interpretation desired by the poet.

      With experience they begin to learn the art of understanding and appreciating poetry. They develop tact, and ironically tact can’t be taught. Guide books, notes by the teachers, and summary books, etc. are often helpful, but the differing interpretations can also confuse students. I would like to tell the students of literature that there may be as many interpretations of the same poem as desired by the reviewers and critics, but it is sometimes very surprising that not even one interpretation stands close to the one which the poet had in his or her mind while writing the poem. We depend on the guess work and through the biography of the poet, the period, the ambiance, and some other contemporary factors.

      Don’t ever try to find the meanings of the words in a poem, just feel them, and you will realize with the time that you have learned the art of studying poetry. Poetry is all about emotion, interpretation, and feelings. A poet has no identity! Through your interpretation and the interpretations made by others you create your own little world around a poem and debate over certain points.

      Reading poetry is a kind of word game. In this series Poetry Guide we are presenting the summary of the poems, followed by the original texts, the form of the poems, and critical analysis. This series has been specially designed for the students of English Literature.

      All the Best

      Raja Sharma

      Chapter 2: Summary of the Poem Dejection

      The persona remembers a poem which tells the story

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