alekth on 01 November 2010
I like poems when someone's reading them aloud. Trouble is people rarely seem to be reading aloud anything but their own poems, so I didn't enjoy many of the poetry readings I used to go to a couple of years ago.
And I absolutely hated dissecting them in class. Someone mentioned Faust, and I really liked that one until we started discussing in my German class. Didn't help that we had some sort of feminist teacher that barely paid any attention to anything but Gretchen. And that was only on the story/ideas level. The literary devices level is what kills off whatever pleasure is left from reading the work.
