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  1. Well, I will say right now the poetry unit in English is confusing and dull. How should i know the meaning of a poem that is explicitly written to be confusing?

    Thursday, 10-Jan-13 17:21:59 UTC from web
    1. @techdisk King lear i could understand, Oryx and crake and The handmaid's tale were actual novels, 1984 was 1984, poetry is...

      Thursday, 10-Jan-13 17:23:15 UTC from web
    2. @techdisk That's a major problem literature proffesors have. They can't understand that only the author and people of the same social circle/demographic can accurately get the meaning of a poem or such work. Otherwise is a matter of luck.

      Thursday, 10-Jan-13 17:25:02 UTC from web
      1. @nerthos The only poem i like is "Haikus are easy, but sometimes they don't make sense. Refrigerator."

        Thursday, 10-Jan-13 17:31:36 UTC from web
    3. @techdisk It is funny. We actually met the author of one of the poems we had to study, as they weren't all classical. /Someone/ in our class asked him about his intended meanings, and whether they were anything like what we were being taught. He laughed a great deal and told us "No. Not even close".

      Thursday, 10-Jan-13 17:48:16 UTC from StatusNet Desktop
      1. @ceruleanspark @techdisk I feel like writing a poem about nothing just to see how people try to interpret it

        Thursday, 10-Jan-13 17:49:26 UTC from web
      2. @ceruleanspark That's probably one of the best feelings someone can get at school.

        Thursday, 10-Jan-13 17:49:47 UTC from web
      3. @ceruleanspark and this is why the school system should be #

        Friday, 11-Jan-13 04:55:34 UTC from web