April is National Poetry Month 

Greenwood Place Assisted Living will be having fun with 
William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling,

Dr. Seuss, Psalms, to name just a few.   

How to read a poem

• Follow your ears
• Read aloud
• Become an archaeologist
• Don't skim
• Memorize
• Be Patient
• Read in crazy places
• Think Like a Poet
• Look who's talking
• Never be intimidated

Can't wait to get started 

http://allpoetry.com/column/2339540
http://academic.reed.edu/writing/paper_help/figurative_language.html
http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/LiteraryTermsTOC.html#RhetLang
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/allegory.html

www.shmoop.com