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(10-06-2014, 06:02 AM)Leanne Wrote: 
Honestly, poetry shouldn't be "studied". It should be read, absorbed, appreciated, hated, revered, saved for alone time in the toilet... anything but "studied". Sure, study the mechanics, study meter, study the way that sounds join together to create mood and moments -- but poetry needs to just be. Academia has stolen the poetry from poems.
And I say that as a teacher and an academic.
In the Academy it isn't about what's written anymore. It's about Kultural Kapital. *gag*
