My Younger Days

     Personally, I'm not a big fan of poetry and I don't really read poetry outside of English class. The poems that I've encountered in my English class were mainly Shakespeare's sonnets, John Donne's metaphysical poetry, and a few others. However, I'm not particularly impressed by these poems because fristly, they're quite obsolete and I have to spend a fair amount of time to figure out the general idea of the poem, and secondly, as I said I'm just not into poetry. But if I were to really compare poetry, certainly I'm more interested in subtle and humorous poetry. There's one that I found on the web that's quite interesting, it's titled "My Younger Days" and depicted the speaker's "younger days" compared with her older times. The speaker addresses aging issues, such as gaining weight, losing the good eyesight, (which I have empathy), and worsening skin condition. It's humorous and subtle because the speaker twists around and compares her "glorious younger days" with the present. I find it interesting and it's also easier to understand than those of our English class. I think we should look at more contemporary poems in our English class!