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Review or explication on the poem "Terence, this is stupid stuff by A.E. Housman?

this is my first paper on a poem, im finding it hard or don't really understand how to write a explicaton of this poem HELP HELP.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

OK, Dear Summer, we will bite.

Having answered this the first time you posted it, here we find it posted again. So, here is the thing.

Look at each line, then each couplet, then each verse, and say to yourself; what is Housman trying to say here, what images does he paint, and what meaning can we infer from the poetic devices he uses in his verse?

Look up Housmen, and "A Shropshire Lad" in the encyclopedia. Find a poet (not an angst ridden teenager, probably named Terence), but a real lover of language and the poetic arts, and ask them about this poem.

Also, if this is truly the first poem you have ever tried to analyze, either your teachers are big-a***d tyrants, or you've missed a class or two. Whatever, perhaps you should look up something on How to analyze a poem.

Also, see my other answer, it's full of information and analysis.

Good luck.