An Apology to My Students began years ago, when I was an English tutor & started thinking about great writers all in the same anachronistic English class, and how the teacher would grade their work.

_{As the fancy brackets state, this is just fun. It’s not a contest or a challenge; it’s not even a story. There is no plot or character development. If you want to have the good instructor insult a poet or writer, add prequels or sequels.}

Please include notes so that everyone can follow new authors.

Emily Dickinson – the poem referenced could have been almost any of them, but I chose “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.â€?

_{Robert Frost once complained, “writing free verse poetry is like playing tennis without the net.â€? The work mentioned is ‘Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening.â€?}

Ezra Pound – poem referenced is “In the Station of the Metroâ€?

Forgot Carl Sandburg – an American Anti-Formist Poet (my term) who was known for the beat of his poetry.

Haha, I’ve read the poems that you talked about, so it was very humorous for me.