On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 10:44 PM Vani Murarka <vani.mura...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, that dreadful question that puts hapless students in a spot: "So? What > is the poet saying?" :-) exacerbated by the teacher's frustration and > "shoulds" :-) > *shudder* I was a dunce who barely scraped by Hindi. English, on the other hand, was a subject I loved. In high school it annoyed me terribly that my teachers - mostly good, kind, intelligent ones - insisted that a poem could have only one meaning. As if the Solitary Reaper could only mean what the state sanctioned curriculum said it meant. Thaths
