Thread 214669729

Also an AP Lit teacher, and I had about the same thought. Real poetry is hard for the average American adult to read with their middle school literacy level. They’d probably prefer a straightforward, banal short story produced by an AI to Faulkner, too.

And let’s not pretend that school isn’t partly to blame. We keep dumbing things down to try to get these kids through, and now they balk at reading 10 pages. If it’s not some dumbfuck influencer reacting to a can of beans or whatever, these kids couldn’t care less, and we keep trying to meet them there so No Child Is Left Behind.

pee pee poo poo

>>214669765
Hey there, dear fellow Norwegian. You caught me in a moment of making a blanket statement that more accurately applies to Americans (the pool the research was conducted on).

54% of Americans read below a 6th grade reading level. They, on the whole, don't like poetry. They can't like most poetry because it's literally impossible for them to even read.

My apologies for not separating them from other, more functional countries.

>>214669807
Why are you copying stuff from https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1gra2ii/people_prefer_ai_over_real_classic_poetry/?

>>214669839
I think it's also beyond language. The references are lost on a modern audience if you don't know the books and stories and historical moments being referred. There is also things like, say "hemlock". Very pretty word. Keats uses it the Nightingale. If you don't know it's poisonous you can't get the sentence. Right after that there's a biblical character being called back to that I had to look up myself, and I went through catechism... So yeah. Back then nobody would need a dictionary to understand such lines.

>>214669729 (OP)
This is actually good american must collapse or be controlled be euros