I'm inclined to agree with this method :) A few well-chosen lines can pierce to the heart more directly than a full poem, oftentimes. And certainly a long poem, however beautiful, can intimidate and overwhelm, and turn them off because they're not willing to put in the effort to try to comprehend something they've decided they don't understand at all.
agreed! i got sooo lucky to have a great poetry-loving english teacher; she would read poems to her class every once in awhile, not as classwork, but "for your soul." she would say "just let it sit there." and no analyzing or discussion was required unless we wanted to talk about it. which usually, we did. best part of the day.
The way to show poetry to someone who hates it is to give them a few crumbs at a time, the way they had to reintroduce the emaciated skeletons of Nazi camps to eating again, because their systems were so wasted to it, they would die from a piece of cheese.
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That was poetry. :) Thanks.
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