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Robert Pinsky, former US Poet Laureate, argues that it's a good thing that poetry is challenging : Difficulty, after all, is one of life's essential pleasures: music, athletics, dance thrill us partly because they engage great difficulties. Epics and tragedies, no less than action movies and mysteries, portray an individual's struggle with some great difficulty. […]
This link (PDF, give it a moment to load) contains the sample responses to the Lear prompt from the College Board. I suspect that you will be unimpressed. Lots of OJ, personal examples, and terrible transitions. Yikes.
Robert Pinsky, former US Poet Laureate, argues that it's a good thing that poetry is challenging : Difficulty, after all, is one of life's essential pleasures: music, athletics, dance thrill us partly because they engage great difficulties. Epics and tragedies, no less than action movies and mysteries, portray an individual's struggle with some great difficulty. […]
This link (PDF, give it a moment to load) contains the sample responses to the Lear prompt from the College Board. I suspect that you will be unimpressed. Lots of OJ, personal examples, and terrible transitions. Yikes.
