| Teacher discouraging me to do poetry!?
My current Advanced teacher, who will be taking me for Extension 2 next year told me that poetry is 'too subjectively marked'.
So, i asked him if he thought i was incapable, and he said that extension 2 was the perfect subject for me etc etc...
But he said that poetry is 'just too subjective'.
He also said that only about 50 people do it in the state..(and he insinuated that that was a bad thing..?)
So..i don't understand how poetry would be any more subjectively marked than a short story..?
And i'm worried that i'll need all the support i can get from my teacher, and if he's not encouraging me then what's the point?
I would change mediums to a short story, but i love poetry, and without being arrogant i think i'm good..i'm not some emo poet who writes poems about depression and angst..i really take poetry seriously! and i've already started!!
..HELP! |