Poetry, at least IME, tends to benefit most from being read aloud. You feel a little silly if you're by yourself, but reading it aloud enhances any lyrical aspe

Poetry, at least IME, tends to benefit most from being read aloud. You feel a little silly if you're by yourself, but reading it aloud enhances any lyrical aspects that are present. Note that this doesn't work for all poetry, something like 'the wasteland' wouldn't benefit and I don't think it would be possible to read EE Cummings aloud at all.