How Long to Read How to Play a Poem

How Long Does it Take to Read How to Play a Poem?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 41 minutes to read How to Play a Poem by Don Bialostosky

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Approaching poems as utterances designed and packaged for pleasurable reanimation, How to Play a Poem leads readers through a course that uses our common experience of language to bring poems to life. It mobilizes the speech genres we acquire in our everyday exchanges to identify “signs of life” in poetic texts that can guide our co-creation of tone. How to Play a Poem draws on ideas from the Bakhtin School, usually associated with fiction rather than poetry, to construct a user-friendly practice of close reading as an alternative to the New Critical formalism that still shapes much of teaching and alienates many readers. It sets aside stock questions about connotation and symbolism to guide the playing out of dynamic relations among the human parties to poetic utterances, as we would play a dramatic script or musical score. How to Play a Poem addresses critics ready to abandon New Criticism, teachers eager to rethink poetry, readers eager to enjoy it, and students willing to give it a chance, inviting them to discover a lively and enlivening way to animate familiar and unfamiliar poems.

How long is How to Play a Poem?

How to Play a Poem by Don Bialostosky is 216 pages long, and a total of 55,296 words.

This makes it 73% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read How to Play a Poem Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 2 minutes to read How to Play a Poem aloud.

What Reading Level is How to Play a Poem?

How to Play a Poem is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

Where Can I Buy How to Play a Poem?

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