[New-Poetry] cummings, grammaticality

[Rsgwynn1 at cs.com]

One of the things that I've noticed more frequently in listening to younger 
students attempting to understand poems is that they don't seem to have any 
emotional context to help them identify with what well-known poems are saying.  
Take these, for example:

"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
"anyone lived in a pretty how town"
"Eros Turranos"
Song of Myself: 6

And many others.

I often wonder what their emotional lives are like.  It's very hard to teach 
them how to respond in the absence of any response.  Are they in denial?
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