Elegy In The Classroom Comments

Sexton explores how traditional education can be both a blessing and a curse. It can stifle creativity, leaving students feeling trapped and hopeless, yet it also holds the potential for growth and transformation.

Sexton's elegy weaves a tapestry of sorrow and reflection, inviting readers to confront their own mortality and find solace in shared experiences.

We may read the poignant themes of death, grief, and the human condition. Written in Sexton's signature confessional style, the poem reflects on the loss of a loved one and the ways in which we cope with the pain of that loss.

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MY FINAL RESPONSE: Sexton's elegy weaves a tapestry of sorrow and reflection, inviting readers to confront their own mortality and find solace in shared experiences.

FOUR: The poem invites us to contemplate the fragility of existence and the complex emotions that arise in the face of mortality. In this thin classroom, where words and faces intersect,

THREE: Furthermore, education itself emerges as a central theme. Sexton explores how traditional education can be both a blessing and a curse. It can stifle creativity, leaving students feeling trapped and hopeless, yet it also holds the potential for growth and transformation.

TWO: The classroom setting becomes a powerful metaphor for life's impermanence and the impact of death on both the teacher and the other students.

ONE: We may read the poignant themes of death, grief, and the human condition. Written in Sexton's signature confessional style, the poem reflects on the loss of a loved one and the ways in which we cope with the pain of that loss.

This might be about a teacher who the student speaker sees as a dual role prince/frog depending on his appearance or mood? The day before he was a prince, today a frog. It's funny.

In the end I am not sure what it is about, but it is always interesting to ponder Anne's madness.

and when we read the line...the prince you ate yesterday....if prince the word used as prince to mean then the spirit to craft the expression make us decided to value...'your words were all things, '. Readers also watching through the velocity of woolen legs....the classroom and the elegy. Wise indeed.