Do not ask me to analyse poetry
I was sitting in an English class once and we were analysing Poetry, as you do in a class of English. I was humbled with the notable importance of Poetry. But you see I do not know how to analyse the techniques in Poetry? And I’m not quite sure the Poets do either? Poetry is anything but words; anything but a string of metaphors, similes, personification, assonance; perfectly concocted to appeal to the aesthetics, easily digestible, pleasing to the ears, a low hum of “ooos” and “aahs.”
