The Poetry Lesson

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classroom. She has long, well-brushed blonde hair and a slim sensual body. She is a long-distance operator. She has returned to school to improve the quality of her life; she wants to marry a college man. She wears large, gold-rimmed glasses to suggest she is intellectual. know the glasses are a fraud, a cheap deception designed to entrap me. She speaks before do. She does not raise her hand; that would be self-demeaning. She says: I know what you are going to do. I'll tell you right offI don't like poetry. don't understand it. never have. It's not relevant. It's been

Journal
College English
Published
1971-04-01
DOI
10.2307/375107
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