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poem in such limited time, even a poem as short and relatively simple as At Grass, is unreasonable. Yet our discussion of their answers and the poem itself in the following class hour was both amicable and profitable: they learned, in a collective and public encounter with At Grass, to read the same poem and to recognize it as the poem Larkin wrote. Even more important, they were able to see how and why they had misread it, to assess their private and individual performances as readers.

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