Dear Grandchildren,
I remember my high school English teacher (Was it Marjorie Shott?) explaining Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Bells.” I understood what was said, but I couldn’t hear the bells in the poem. I guess that was the point of the poem, i.e., to recognize the words of the poem made the sounds of each bell. (The technical word is onomatopoeia.)
Perhaps it would have aided my education had the teacher mentioned that poetry is designed to be heard, not read silently.
Listen to a presentation of “The Bells.”
Can you hear the bells? It’s taken me a long time, but I can.
Love,
Grandfather
jcfunk 
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