Posted On April 2, 2022
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Very often, we don't understand poetry, not because it is too difficult, but because *we* are too difficult! Our education can sometimes work against us, encouraging us to search for the "right answer", when our common sense would tell us that the answer is so obvious even a child could see it.
This video illustrates the point with a short extract from Adrian Mitchell's "To whom it may concern" (aka "Tell me lies about Vietnam").
The "Journey through Poetry" playlist is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwI6PbYTLTM&list=PLzVb6yL_jY699zMtMVOzlYtxC7cJrnzgQ
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