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Originally Posted by patrickt
I remember telling an English teacher in high school that she didn't need to read the poems to me, I could read them on my own. Her response was, "I wish everyone could and would."
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Poetry is perhaps a little different, in that one needs (assuming it's metrical poetry) to bring out the metre when reading it. If you simply read it as straight prose, you'll miss a great deal. There's a tremendous difference between hearing one of Shakespeare's Sonnets read "properly", and simply reading it yourself if you've no idea where the stress should fall. That really is an area where audiobooks can be tremendously beneficial.