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Understanding how poetry works is central to all specifications.
It is one of the truisms of reading poetry that it sounds different from other uses of language, and that this difference in sound is meaningful. When you read a poem, you should be attuned (itself a musical term) to those sounds and ready to relate them to broader patterns of meaning within the text. This article explores whether this is true, and suggests some strategies for approaching questions of sound and style in your own writing.
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