[New-Poetry] difficult poetry

[Anny Ballardini]

your comment is something, 

From: "TheOldMole" <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:08 PM


> 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." 
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Tad Richards
> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/