Does Poetry Matter? To me poetry does not matter. I do not like poetry because a poem is just a passage that contains a hidden meaning and I can never figure out what a poem is about. If poetry was not around then authors would just come out and say what they wanted to say . Their thoughts would not get confused and people would not miss the meaning that the author is trying to get …showed first 75 words of 598 total…

…showed last 75 words of 598 total…The children should be cheerful and should be smiling all day. Lewis Carroll's poem is about nothing but how children should have fun in their lives and not just work all day. I chose this poem because it was the only poem I could find around my house that is English literature. I also had some notes on what it was about which helped me a lot in figuring out the meaning of the poem.