English Prosody has tended to be a subject for cranks. - John Hollander

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Major poetry not only 'employs' metaphor, irony and other tropes (and is of them) but always and explicitly or implicitly considers the nature of the trope itself.

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A teacher (of poetry) has to know and feel what poetry is , and be able - and this is crucial- to read it aloud effectively.

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Great poems are all fables about life.

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