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Teaching Poetry Makes Me Feel Weak

we started with thomas hardy we went onto dickinson then onto wordsworth as the clock ticks by the material makes me dry up like a leaf (that’s a simile) damn these poets and their puniness

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Darlene De Beaulieu

Date: 9/2/2021 12:11:00 PM

Hello Christopher Allen, it sounds like you are having a hard time teaching poetry. I say - Keep on trying. Or read one of your poems. Enjoy your day my friend.

Darlene De Beaulieu
Date: 9/3/2021 11:06:00 AM

Hello Christopher, oh-not at all! I am pleased that you are enjoying it. I agree a stricter teacher would probably do something about it. I love poetry. Enjoy yur day my friend.

Christopher Allen
Date: 9/2/2021 4:43:00 PM

Hi Darlene! Not at all, I'm really enjoying it. The poem is an exaggeration. There are students up to things perhaps they shouldn't be doing, subtle things. A stricter teacher would probably do something about it.

Victor Buhagiar

Date: 9/2/2021 2:00:00 AM

Any literature will go down badly if you don't like what you read. One trick I learned is not to judge anything in comparison with something else. For example Dickenson wrote on how people lived You have to know the background or you fail.

Mohamed Omar

Date: 9/2/2021 1:47:00 AM

dry up like a leaf (that’s a simile) Awesome (that's a fact )