On Reading Poems to a Senior Class At South High By: D.C Berry

Heyyy... How to start ???????? ummmm? OK this poem is very cool and here is why. This setting of this poem is in a high school class room. I believe that the poets goal for writing this poem was to show how a teacher views his or her high school Literature class and how the students react to poetry. In this poem the teacher dicusses poetry to the class at the same he also compares the students in the classroom to fish in the aquarium. This poem has seven stanzas and the first stanza is where the first metaphore happens and it is when the teacher enters into the class room and sees how the students are like frozen fish in a package and now the aquarium (classroom) is starting to fill up slowly with water as the lesson goes on. He didnt know that the kids had any intrest in poetry untill it was up to his ears. Here is when he found out that the kids he was teaching understood and enjoyed what he as a teacher had to say. In the third stanza he finialy hears what the kids have to say about poetry and he finially understands that they have opened up and have listend what he has said through their "gills." Now in the 4 stanza they can all talk about the poem together and hear what eachother have to say, the teacher was not expecting this. In this stanza there is a change in tone leading to the bell ringing. This means that they are done and now going to another class leaving behind the great time they had in the aquarium. They went on as he went home leaving his teaching behid and becoming himself again.................