Make marginalia
title: “Make Marginalia”
layout: note
date: 18-08-2022
last_modified_at: 2023-12-08 12:09
rilegious to me at first but soon it helped me analyse poetry and highlight lines I liked.
It’s turns reading from an passive process into Active Reading.
I highlight what I like by underlining, then ask myself questions about the writing. What are they doing and how do they achieve their effect? It gives you techniques to feed into your own work when Editing A Poem.
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