Eating Poetry

• What do these poems suggest about the way we should approach poetry? What is one specific example (evidence from the text)? The author portraits this poem as eating fruit. The poem says " It is ready and ripe now whenever you are". This could mean that the fruit is ripe or that the poem is now ready and filled with knowledge and it is up to you whether if you want to learn it or not.

• For example, they write: " You do not need a knife or spoon or plate or napkin or table cloth".

• This tells us: To read the poem even though it's messy and hard to understand and that all you need is your brain.