Re: poem with metaphors

[Nancy Vait <vait3@yahoo.com>]

Cari - Wow!  And you still like the poem after all
that analyzing and dissecting!  There's an English
major for you!

. . . which makes me think of Billy Collins'
"Introduction to Poetry" and his wonderful lines "But
all they want to do/ is tie the poem to a chair with
rope/ and torture a confession out of it.// They begin
beating it with a hose/ to find out what it really
means."

So there's another poem with metaphor, yes?  Most of
my students get that one without too much
interpretation, laughing and cheering, while I, the
English teacher, hang my head and trudge dilligently
onward, promoting deeper thought and analyzation.  ha.

Nancy


--- Cari Spitz Ashford <minnashford@yahoo.com> wrote:

> It's called Mirror.  I had to write a 10 page paper
> on it when I was in college analyzing the possible
> meaning of almost every word in the text.  Crazy! 
> Anyhow, one of my classes chose this as their March
> Madness of Poetry winner.  The girls really liked
> it.  
> 


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