Can children appreciate The Lord of the Rings?

[Rosie Posie Burrows]

Originally posted by The Mirrorball Man:
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I sympathize, I really do. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] But the "hard work" is called poetry. And if you work hard enough, you might even enjoy it. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]</STRONG>

Oh, it's not that I don't like poetry, but the comprehension questions that we get on it in English papers make it sound like every single word symbolises something else. It's those sort of poems I don't like so much… I like poems that tell a story (Tolkein's poetry for instance!), not the really abstract ones which never mean what it looks like they mean, if you see what I mean (?!). But the teachers always give us those. Probably because they know they're harder!
Oh, and in answer to the previous post, my English teacher does usually take us to see the plays, so she's not too bad really. When I was writing about Shakespeare being a pain, I wasn't referring to her. I was really referring to studying Macbeth two years ago with a different English teacher. Because it was a very advanced play for our age group, she went at baby-pace, explaining almost every word. I've always been good at English and I could follow Macbeth fine. It was a drag having to read at a fifth of the speed I was used to. I was usually five pages ahead of the rest of the class when we were reading it… So that was boring. We never got to go and see it either. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]