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Originally Posted by Halfa
i have to memorize a friggin walt whitman poem. A WALT WHITMAN POEM!!!
let the people who actually LIKE him memorize his poems, and let me memorize songs i like u damned english teacher....
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That's how I felt in high school English. I hated having poetry shoved down my throat and being forced to write poetry.
As soon as I dropped English, I developed an appreciation for Virgil's Aeneid in my Latin class and began reading some other poetry. This is because, being an artform, poetry is something which shouldn't be force-fed and isn't something that you can squeeze out of someone.
And so now I enjoy poetry, but I do consider Latin poetry to be superior to English poetry. It's much more complex and interesting - there are so many intricacies.