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About Linda Sue Grimes -- Classic Poetry Aide
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Here is what I do:
As a Classic Poetry Aide, I offer assistance in the following areas:(1) poetry from ancient to contemporary poetry, (2) scholarly and critical works about the poetry, (3) guidance in writing essays about poetry.

I answer questions about the poets and poetry most widely studied in high school and college English classes. I help with interpretations and direct you to online poetry analyses. I find web sources that offer information for students writing essays about poems.

Here is what I do not do:
I do not help with creative writing issues, such as critiquing poems or offering ideas for poems. I do not offer my personal opinion about poets and poems.



 
   

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Topic: Poetry



Expert: Linda Sue Grimes -- Classic Poetry Aide
Date: 6/25/2008
Subject: Hyena by Edwin Morgan

Question
"It is said I am a good match / for a dead lion" Could you please explain the irony of this statement. Appreciated.

Answer
Dear Naomi,

The word "match" adds the irony to the line.  In a match, for example a wrestling match, there are two opponents.  Both opponents have to alive and able to compete against each other to have a match.  Obviously, with a dead lion, there is no competition, which makes the use of the word match "ironical."

Hope this helps.

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