> Now, what I'd like to know is, is there a
correct way to read lines of poetry like this?
Her way doesn't seem to make sense in a
rhyming poem, because then it doesn't rhyme
like it's supposed to. Could someone shed
some light on this for me? Flashlight,
anyone? Candle? Match?

Although you may not like it, I think your
English teacher is right. From what I can
remember, since high school and throughout
college, each and every English or Speech
teacher I had taught the same thing. When we
had to recite poetry in college speech lab, we
lost points off our scores if we recited the
poems line by line in what our teacher called
a "singsong" pattern of voice. No, we had to do
it the way your English teacher does.

Can't say as it bothered me, either. It doesn't
come naturally to recite words that are divided
up into lines that way, but I think it makes
poems sound niftier and less childlike. Or
something. Whenever I recite a poem (which
is hardly ever) I try to do it that way.

Gri"always liked Robert Frost"shny