Do we really understand poetry?
Do we really understand verse?
Does our education stifle us?
Does it make our understanding worse?
Is that alliteration working?
Does that couplet rhyme quite right?
Does that stanza make you tingly?
Does the tone give you pure insight?
Do we really understand poetry?
Is it still much too obscure?
Does our education damage it?
And make it less than pure?
J R A Gigney
(31 August 2013)
Inspired by an interview on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live with Michael Rosen...
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