Friday, January 3, 2003

The Lesson Comments

Rating: 4.0

Chaos ruled OK in the classroom
as bravely the teacher walked in
the nooligans ignored him
his voice was lost in the din
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Roger McGough
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Bharati Nayak 21 November 2023

What does the poet want to drive home through this poem'Lesson'.Perhaps he says a teacher is after all a human being with all the traits of a common man.Sometimes he may go beyond his limits of tolerance.

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peater griffin 24 July 2023

my dog Brian can wright better

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peater griffin 23 July 2023

my dog brian coud right better stuff

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ye 13 September 2022

I ain't reading allat

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kan 16 September 2022

nah ong

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Hf 06 June 2022

Why didn't the students fight back?

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I like men and Fortnite

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I like and fortnite

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I like amelia

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kanye west 16 September 2022

I like fortnite

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I like amelia

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Joshua Heffernan 05 May 2022

Imagine dieing to a shotgun L+Ratio Fortnite nerfed them so hard how can you die 💀💀💀

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Tony 25 April 2022

This poem is a lot more than 30 years old. We used it as a mini play in about 1983. Brilliant poem.

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That teacher just solo'd a victory royale

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Ikr

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Noam Yip 11 October 2021

Nice poem 😁

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Sississjjssossos 11 October 2021

Ik

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Joshua Heffernan 04 May 2022

Ikr

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Be Responsible 11 May 2021

We as individuals need to each to responsibly for quick negative responses to issues that should be handled through respectful two person-way communication.

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Be Responsible 11 May 2021

This poem is about the unnecessary, overly-dramtic, negative attention seeking, spoiled "mama's child/daddy's child, " "all about me…and everyone else" attitudes in today's "cancel culture."

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Be Responsible 11 May 2021

Many of you miss the point of this poem…

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Be Responsible 11 May 2021

In the current world's overly negative and overly dramatic responses to minor life issues…How is this different in the current world's workplace and personal life "cancel culture" attitudes?

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i eat cheese 14 April 2021

This is what you call a mass bullying.

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mike hawk 11 April 2021

imagine dying what a loser skill issue cry about it dnc

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ped ofile 11 April 2021

skill issue cry about it

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