07-01-2011, 11:35 AM
actually i can see what they meant.
i think you deserved the D hehe (i'm serious by the way) not for the poem but for the age old crime
of youth. i've read a few of yeats's poems and i'm not an officianado on him or anything but the guy really was a master of what he did.
often we look at old poets (turn of the 21st century for 30 plus years in this case) and their works and think them not relevant. often all we do by acting that way is sticking a sharp stick in our own eye. his 2nd comeing poem is probably one of the better know of his poems and the metaphor he uses in it are as relevant today as they were 80, 90 years ago. they'll still be valid in another 200 years time.
while everyone can write a lemon of a poem most critics would disagree this is poem is a lemon, that and the fact most poets who have won the nobel prize for literature, (of which he was the 1st irish poet to do so), tend not to do lemon poems.
back to the age old crime of youth;
we often think because we don't like something it's bad, i loved soul music and hated country, it wasn't till my mid 20's i realized i hated it because it was different to what i liked. my crime was the crime of not understanding. but lets not make this about you disliking a poem or my hatred of something.
i think often we and i include myself, go into something with preconceived ideas already in place. our opinion has been set before the concrete of knowledge has even been poured. maybe your teacher should have better handled his dilemma, but maybe just may, we as would be poets should be more understand of poetry other than what we deem the good stuff. i think personally yeats has a bucketful of knowledge we could use. even if you me or anyone else deems him or his poetry lazy or unimaginative. (i'd actually give the 2nd coming a 91/2 out of ten based on an average poem rating a 2)
jmo.
i think you deserved the D hehe (i'm serious by the way) not for the poem but for the age old crime
of youth. i've read a few of yeats's poems and i'm not an officianado on him or anything but the guy really was a master of what he did.
often we look at old poets (turn of the 21st century for 30 plus years in this case) and their works and think them not relevant. often all we do by acting that way is sticking a sharp stick in our own eye. his 2nd comeing poem is probably one of the better know of his poems and the metaphor he uses in it are as relevant today as they were 80, 90 years ago. they'll still be valid in another 200 years time.
while everyone can write a lemon of a poem most critics would disagree this is poem is a lemon, that and the fact most poets who have won the nobel prize for literature, (of which he was the 1st irish poet to do so), tend not to do lemon poems.
back to the age old crime of youth;
we often think because we don't like something it's bad, i loved soul music and hated country, it wasn't till my mid 20's i realized i hated it because it was different to what i liked. my crime was the crime of not understanding. but lets not make this about you disliking a poem or my hatred of something.
i think often we and i include myself, go into something with preconceived ideas already in place. our opinion has been set before the concrete of knowledge has even been poured. maybe your teacher should have better handled his dilemma, but maybe just may, we as would be poets should be more understand of poetry other than what we deem the good stuff. i think personally yeats has a bucketful of knowledge we could use. even if you me or anyone else deems him or his poetry lazy or unimaginative. (i'd actually give the 2nd coming a 91/2 out of ten based on an average poem rating a 2)
jmo.