Tell us about your history with poetry. Why did you like or dislike it when you read it in high school? Do you read or write it now? Please recommend a favorite poem (even a children’s poem) that’s not on my list. Summarize the poem you selected this week in two to three sentences. Please quote two or three memorable or “golden” lines from that poem. Tell us any words, phrases, lines, or other passages that confused you. Quote those, too, so your savvy classmates can help explicate them. (Literary interpretation is known as exegesis or hermeneutics, by the way!) The poem to chose is “HE WOULD NEVER USE ONE WORD WHERE NONE WOULD DO” by Philip Levine https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/poetry/antholog/levine/oneword.html
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