I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)
I was always afraid to read any classical work because no matter what you think you read, someone will tell you &quot;Actually...&quot;<p>Then one day I read this beautiful quote about the old man and the sea:<p>&gt; “Then there is the other secret. There isn&#x27;t any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.”<p>― Ernest Hemingway