Massey’s Comment: A satiric haiku that gets a solid B grade for two reasons. First, it suggests that alienation in art is often mixed with pride if alienation in art is not actually a form of secret pride itself. So the poet is alienated because he / she is more perceptive, more feeling, more creative than other people and the purpose of the poem is to highlight that fact.
The second reason is how flat, dull, colorless, and lifeless the language is. Normally, I mark myself down for this and I should. Here, the drabness of the language emphasizes the drabness of the poem’s purpose, and offers an implicit (okay – a very hard to see implicit) criticism of skylarking language that is used to cover-up some very drab and grubby intentions indeed.
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Massey’s Grade: B.
Massey’s Comment: A satiric haiku that gets a solid B grade for two reasons. First, it suggests that alienation in art is often mixed with pride if alienation in art is not actually a form of secret pride itself. So the poet is alienated because he / she is more perceptive, more feeling, more creative than other people and the purpose of the poem is to highlight that fact.
The second reason is how flat, dull, colorless, and lifeless the language is. Normally, I mark myself down for this and I should. Here, the drabness of the language emphasizes the drabness of the poem’s purpose, and offers an implicit (okay – a very hard to see implicit) criticism of skylarking language that is used to cover-up some very drab and grubby intentions indeed.