[New-Poetry] cummings, grammaticality

[James Cervantes]

I used to wonder about this also, Sam.  But, then I tried a somewhat
retrospective analysis of myself at 17 or 18 and decided my emotional
content at that time was most likely very basic, black & white sturm
und drang.  Luckily, I was not yet writing.  Or reading much, for that
matter.

- Jim, who is now retired from teaching and relieved of genuine
concern over such matters

On 12/30/06, Rsgwynn1 at cs.com <Rsgwynn1 at cs.com> wrote:
> 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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