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Help studying Longley and Yeats

Ste234 · 2010-01-31 16:08:26

Anybody want to give me a start or tell me the best way to start on studying Longley or Yeat's poetry or and poetry for that matter. I like poetry like, just find it hard getting a start on it.

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31-01-2010 5:08pm

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Ste234

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Anybody want to give me a start or tell me the best way to start on studying Longley or Yeat's poetry or and poetry for that matter.
I like poetry like, just find it hard getting a start on it.

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#2 31-01-2010 5:15pm
Cipango

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Ste234 wrote: »

Anybody want to give me a start or tell me the best way to start on studying Longley or Yeat's poetry or and poetry for that matter.
I like poetry like, just find it hard getting a start on it.

Perhaps just take it poem by poem...learn the poems main quotes, then read the poetic techniques and so on...

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#3 31-01-2010 5:16pm
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YEATS: Start with 'lake isle of innisfree'. It's absolutely the easiest

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#4 31-01-2010 5:17pm
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pathway33 wrote: »

YEATS: Start with 'lake isle of innisfree'. It's absolutely the easiest

Then link 1916 and 1913 together under topics like politics etc.

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