Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teacher who shares this hostility] may show his contempt for poetry openly...
...teacher is embarrassed by it. "Nothing is more quickly communicated than a feeling of embarrassment; and even though the teacher may not be respected, the embarrassment tends to remain, and to be associated, however vaguely, with the subject which gave rise...
...teacher is suspicious of all forms of emotion. "This seems to be a vice of women teachers more than...
...teacher is indifferent to poetry. "This teacher is every bit as dangerous, because he has nothing at all to restrain him. ... He makes poetry yield dividends. He gives marks for it. He asks his pupils to paraphrase it. ... Ask anyone to paraphrase a poem and . . . you suggest that a poem is a sort of fancy dress for a statement that can be made equally well in plain prose...
...teacher loves poetry uncomprehendingly. "Like a man who falls in love not with a real girl, but with his own picture of one ... this sort of poetry-lover fastens his own emotions upon a poem and then believes that the poem has created them. ... He misreads the poem...