Helping Dunning-Kruger’s Learn Poetry
What’s the deal with poetry? That is the question on the mind of every high-schooler in their English class. “We’ll never need to use this in real life,” they cry, never realizing they’ve become ignorant to any complex meaning, satire, implications, or effects that can come from artistic literature. These are the people that might come across, if anything, a glimpse of “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and reflect on their entire lives, lost in the profoundness of an idea that most have already contemplated. We only get so long to live, so how can you judge what’s worthwhile and what’s a waste without a long-term plan in mind? Is anything really more important than learning how to think and understand, learning how others think and understand, and learning what it means to be human? Perhaps you think the latter is better suited for real-world experiences. This is a fair point, but trivial. Everything we “experience” is done through a filter that is our senses. Remember that yo...