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conuly
Age Appropriateness: Intermediate
Genre: Poetry
Review: This was a great example of poetry, because every word at the end of a sentence rhymed and it was in AAAB,AAAB format with the rhyming words.
Yup, if it rhymes it is poetry. Haiku? Not poetry. Burma Shave? POETRY! "I loved my friend?" Well, it doesn't rhyme. Latin is a dead language? POETRY!
The fact that this book utilizes interesting turns of phrase, the fact that the lines all scan according to a particular meter, the repetition, the use of consonance - those don't make it poetry. Only the rhyming does.
What really gets me is that whoever this teacher is that assigned this, all his/her students seem forced to call books good examples. They're a good example of poetry, or modern fantasy, or realistic fiction, or whatever else. Why can't they simply be examples and let the good or bad speak for itself?
Genre: Poetry
Review: This was a great example of poetry, because every word at the end of a sentence rhymed and it was in AAAB,AAAB format with the rhyming words.
Yup, if it rhymes it is poetry. Haiku? Not poetry. Burma Shave? POETRY! "I loved my friend?" Well, it doesn't rhyme. Latin is a dead language? POETRY!
The fact that this book utilizes interesting turns of phrase, the fact that the lines all scan according to a particular meter, the repetition, the use of consonance - those don't make it poetry. Only the rhyming does.
What really gets me is that whoever this teacher is that assigned this, all his/her students seem forced to call books good examples. They're a good example of poetry, or modern fantasy, or realistic fiction, or whatever else. Why can't they simply be examples and let the good or bad speak for itself?
