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That is so true
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like every single, and I don't know–
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They'd rather stick something in their eye
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than read a poem, at the beginning.
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And then by the end of English II,
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they've written sonets,
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on their own,
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they're written sestinas,
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sometimes on their own
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and sometimes in a group
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–and sestinas are so hard,
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six words in a very specific order,
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right, across those stanzas
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with an envoy at the end.
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And they love them.
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They're so proud of themselves
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for what they've been able to do
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and I think it's that
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poetry gets a bad rep.
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I don't know why.
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But yeah, they come out at the end
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of English II for sure saying.
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"I like poetry. Who knew?"
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We acknowledge the fear
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and the anxiety that poetry can bring.
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I think that helps
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and we have them
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write poems,
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so that they get to see the beauty
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and the structure
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and the amount of play that's available.
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They're developmentally at a position
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where they are able to appreciate
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the structure, the language, the nuance
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the choices, the economy
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and replicating it, I think, enables them
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to appreciate it in a different way.
