[New-Poetry] cummings, grammaticality

[Rsgwynn1 at cs.com]

In a message dated 12/31/2006 7:56:58 AM Central Standard Time, 
tad at opus40.org writes: 
> 
> 
> 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? 

Maybe it's just lack of experience, not lack of an emotional life.  But even 
young people can gain experience by reading, and they don't read.  You're not 
going to tap into deeper emotional realms by watching tv, that's for sure.
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