Aesthetic Reading: Reading for Appreciation and Enjoyment

Aesthetic reading is for entertainment.* Reading to explore one.* In Aesthetic reading, the reader’s attention is centered directly on what he likes through during his relationship with that particular text.”* Non-academicals purposes of reading.

Aesthetic Stance is for experience* Recreational reading.* Fulfills an important function in lives.* Reading for pleasure or aesthetic reading, been described as “the most hidden literary practice”.* Aesthetic reading been viewed as “symbolic withdrawal”. Reading for appreciation* One that is designed to head the learner to understand and enjoy something.

Let’s get the most out of Literature

* Reading literary selections like poems, short stories, novels, plays, or essays, not only provide pleasure. * It also develop your analytical skills as you must consider each part of the text separately before you can interpret the meaning of the entire work and eventually appreciate it. Poems express ideas in a tighter, more compact way than prose as they do not include details and explanations common to the short story or novel.

The first and third lines contain five syllables while the second line consists of seven syllables. * Tanka – another verse form. It has thirty-one syllables arrange in five lines (five, seven, five, seven, seven). * Cinquain – apoetic unrhymed form consisting of five lines. * Diamante – a seven line, diamond shaped poem.