Angels and Demons

Why is it that teachers, especially ENGLISH teachers, always feel the need to ruin good literature. I mean really! Here I was, thinking we'd ACTUALLY have a good unit on poetry, BUT NO. We have to write thematic statements on the 37 poems we have to read. Thanks a lot. You have ruined them for me. Why must the teachers, who are supposed to be teaching us the very thing they love, turn it against us with their powers of over-analyzation (who knew that wasn't a word...) and their ability to put teenagers to sleep with one word from their gaping maws, while simultaneously ripping the meaning out of these poor, harmless poems? Did they ever do anything to you? I don't think so Ms. C. I don't think so.
What else are we, the students (at least the non-annoying, normal ones..), supposed to do but go at you shrieking, swords of heaven blazing, jumping up to defend the honor of the poor souls who have encountered an english teacher and lived to tell the tale? These small poems are the vestiges of their authors' former literary genius (from before they were corrupted by "education"). To arms, my paragons! Let us not stand by, turning our heads away from this demonry! We shall prevail against Our enemies! We shall cut in pieces the cords of the wicked and triumph glitteringly!

p.s. Ms. C-we all know you're like that old lady in that one movie. You know. The one that looks harmless but turns into a bat thing and jumps all over the walls and kills that guy? yeah. that's you.