How Long to Read Ours

How Long Does it Take to Read Ours?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 58 minutes to read Ours by Cole Swensen

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

Description

These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, André Le Nôtre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles, which Le Nôtre created for Louis XIV, they also explore the garden as metaphor. Using the imagery of the garden, Cole Swensen considers everything from human society to the formal structure of poetry. She looks in particular at the concept of public versus private property, asking who actually owns a garden? A gentle irony accompanies the question because in French, the phrase "le nôtre" means "ours." Whereas all of Le Nôtre's gardens were designed and built for the aristocracy, today most are public parks. Swensen probes the two senses of "le nôtre" to discover where they intersect, overlap, or blur.

How long is Ours?

Ours by Cole Swensen is 116 pages long, and a total of 29,696 words.

This makes it 39% the length of the average book. It also has 36% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ours Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 42 minutes to read Ours aloud.

What Reading Level is Ours?

Ours is suitable for students ages 10 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.

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