How do you read a poem? Embrace the sound, the strangeness and the ambiguity
- Written by William Christie, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University
Richard W. Eaker/ShutterstockA word is dead When it is said, Some say,
I say it just Begins to live That day.
– Emily Dickinson
If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling was the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air”, your...





