Poetry really is music to their ears

By Daniel Groenewald
Community contribution / April 3, 2014

Students love poetry. After all, it appeals to their interests: love, death, angst, awe, beauty, tragedy and crazy freaks; cool words, raw emotion, interior excursions; hyperbole, rhythm, rhyme, metaphor and alliteration.

The thing is, students don't call it poetry, they call it music. Pop, hip-hop, rap, roots, R'n'B, indie, grunge and ...

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Poetry really is music to their ears

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