I'm in an AP (Advanced Placement) English class, so we over-analyze EVERYTHING. Right now we're in our poetry unit . . . now, I never really have liked poetry. It's the one thing I can't write unless I'm angry, and not even then is it very good. So we're spending 6 weeks analyzing one poem in this class.
It's not the worst thing in the world, and it's kind of fun to take colored pens and highlighters and mark every place in your poem where something is happening . . . it makes the paper pretty . . . (*sarcasm*)
We have been talking about author intention - is it really unimportant in fully understanding the poem? Yeah, a lot of these poets are dead, but wouldn't it make the poem make more sense if we had some insight into why they wrote it? What do you think???
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