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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?
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@techdisk King lear i could understand, Oryx and crake and The handmaid's tale were actual novels, 1984 was 1984, poetry is...
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@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.
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@nerthos The only poem i like is "Haikus are easy, but sometimes they don't make sense. Refrigerator."
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@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".
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@ceruleanspark @techdisk I feel like writing a poem about nothing just to see how people try to interpret it
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@ceruleanspark That's probably one of the best feelings someone can get at school.
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@ceruleanspark and this is why the school system should be #banned.
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