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Getting students to enjoy the experience of aesthetic emotions through poetry will allow
access to the entire emotional world present in poetic texts. In this way, the experience of emotions
within poetry is enhanced and students can understand more deeply the emotional dimension of
the human being and, therefore, their own and that of those around them. This process is beneficial
to the individual according to advocates of the need to address emotional education at school.
Aesthetic emotions, in addition, can act as a motivating agent for learning poetry and emotions in
general.
In all the subjects that have to do with these emotions […] it would be good to introduce
situations that favor aesthetic emotional experiences. That is, learn to get excited and enjoy
it. It would be a way to motivate for learning; since there is a direct relationship between
emotion and motivation. (Bisquerra, 2009, p. 175)
The motivation for poetry can also be activated through music and its links with the poetic
(Cristóbal et al., 2019; Llorens, 2008; Vicente-Yagüe, 2015). Establishing relationships between
the poetry discussed in high school and the music students listen to can help improve their attitude
toward poetry.
In adolescence, in particular, music occupies a privileged place among the hobbies and
habits of students, and often becomes an indispensable element of their daily life. Its use as a
significant approach to the literary text and, more specifically, as a possible way to develop literary
competence is valid and effective […] (Vicente-Yagüe, 2015, pp. 377–378).
Music acts as a motivating agent at the same time that it is presented as an object of
knowledge. The adolescent can establish a relationship between poetic language and musical
rhythm, observing how the rules and particularities in poetic texts treated in class appear in the
same way in the lyrics of their favorite songs. Lleida (2019) has vindicated the value of rap in
literature classes and has verified how introducing this musical style into the learning of poetry in
secondary education increases the taste, motivation, and interest of students for canonical poetry.
The methodological strategies that can be used to promote an emotional approach to poetic texts
are the experience of reading, instead of simply reading poems (Larrosa, 2003), and literary
conversation as a shared construction of poetic and emotional knowledge (Chambers, 2007;
Cuesta, 2006).
There is no exact formula that the teacher can apply to encourage poetry reading to become
a reading experience, but the teacher must try to favor meeting the factors that make it possible.
“Only when the right text, the right time, the right sensitivity come together, reading is experience.
Although nothing guarantees that it is: the event occurs under certain conditions of possibility, but
is not subordinated to what is possible” (Larrosa, 2003, p. 40). Therefore, one of the functions of
the teacher should be to create favorable circumstances so that poetic reading becomes an
experience, a vital experience that transcends classroom and is truly meaningful for the student.
Chambers (2007) describes the value of literary conversation within the classroom. Talking about
what we are excited about or what we do not understand about a literary text is of great interest to
those who converse. At the same time, construction of knowledge about the text occurs, since, by
passing our thinking into language, we can observe what exactly we think and what other people
think about it. This act is magical in itself. Regarding didactic interest, we can highlight that it
promotes knowledge, wellbeing, and socialization within the classroom.
Cuesta’s (2006) reflection on the meaning of literary reading in the classroom advocates
evaluating students’ literary responses that could be considered subjective and personal, but that
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