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Naomi Kanakia's avatar

Excellent and valuable advice!

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Claudia Gary's avatar

Zina, thank you for this; it may be very helpful for absorbing large quantities of prose, especially in the required reading for a course. But what happens to the sound of the language when you do this? I’ve discovered, in teaching my Natural Meter Crash Course, that there are many poets who loved metrical verse in childhood but now can’t seem to hear or follow meter. They want to retrain their inner ear to hear the sound of language. Some of them had learned a speed-reading technique while in college. I tried that at one point, but didn’t like the way it “turned off” my inner ear. What do you think about this?

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