User:Drpsugeng

Poetry: A difficult subject to teach As one of the literary genres, poetry is really a difficult subject to teach, even in a department called "English Literature". I do not know the situation elsewhere but this happens in my poetry class here in Stikubank University, Semarang Indonesia. My students do not like poems. especially the classic ones with the following reasons: 1) lexical items of old English 2) strict metrical structure 3) rhyming... Therefore, I have to find out contemporary poems within romantic discourses. I also wrote my own poem (comments and criticisms invited) as follows:

Badly was I hurt So was she; When she had to marry A man of her Mom's choice

But three days prior To her wedding, We were both lying Exhausted

"I love you." She whispered, Leaving me alone In bed, without anything on. (Purwanto, 2012)