Editing Poetry analysis (section)

===Reading poetry aloud===
All poetry was originally oral, it was sung or chanted; poetic form as we know it is an abstraction therefrom when writing replaced memory as a way of preserving poetic utterances, but the ghost of oral poetry never vanishes.<ref>Hollander, John ''Rymes Reason – A Gude to English Verse'', Yale University Press,  New Haven 1981 {{ISBN|978-0-300-04307-5}}</ref>
Poems may be read silently to oneself, or may be read aloud solo or to other people. Although reading aloud to oneself raises eyebrows in many circles, few people find it surprising in the case of poetry.

In fact, many poems reveal themselves fully only when they are read aloud. The characteristics of such poems include (but are not limited to) a strong narrative, regular poetic meter, simple content and simple form. At the same time, many poems that read well aloud have none of the characteristics exhibited by T. S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi", for example. Poems that read aloud well include:

*"The Frog", by [[Jean Dao]]
*"One Art", by [[Elizabeth Bishop]]
*"[[The Tyger]]", by [[William Blake]]
*"Meeting at Night", by [[Robert Browning]]
*"[[She Walks in Beauty]]", by [[George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron|Byron]]
*"The Song of the Western Men", by [[Robert Stephen Hawker]]
*"November in England", by [[Thomas Hood]]
*"Dream Variations", by [[Langston Hughes]]
*"[[The Ingoldsby Legends|The Jackdaw of Rheims]]", by [[Thomas Ingoldsby]]
*"To put one brick upon another", by [[Philip Larkin]]
*"Paul Revere's Ride", by [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]
*"Adventures of Isabel", by [[Ogden Nash]]
*"Nothing but Death", by [[Pablo Neruda]] translated by [[Robert Bly]]
*"A Small Elegy", by [[Jirí Orten]] translated by [[Lynn Coffin]]
*"[[Ozymandias]]", by [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]]
*"[[The Cat in the Hat]]", by [[Dr. Seuss]]
*"Sea Surface Full of Clouds", by [[Wallace Stevens]]
*"Silver", by [[Walter de la Mare]]
*"How to Tell a Story", by [[Robert Penn Warren]]
*"On Westminster Bridge", by [[William Wordsworth]]