[New-Poetry] difficult poetry

[TheOldMole]

It doesn't even take poetry. I was teaching "The Young Lions" one 
semester and my students -- most of them in the class -- complained that 
it was too difficult to follow the switching between three stories. I 
pointed out that high school dropouts have no problem following much 
more complicated shifting story lines in soap operas.

Rsgwynn1 at cs.com wrote:
> All I can add to this discussion is that today's sophomore's have real 
> trouble understanding something like Bryant's "The Yellow Violet." 
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