[New-Poetry] cummings, grammaticality

[TheOldMole]

Sam -- can you say a little more about this?

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  From: Rsgwynn1 at cs.com 
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  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] cummings, grammaticality


  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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