On Reading Poems to a Senior Class At South High

At first when I read this, I was very confused but towards the end the idea made sense. It's definitely a smirking, sneering tone with lots of sarcasm. I can completely relate to this poem because I know how it feels to feel like your drowning in a classroom; I've had lots of classes like that. Everybody is talking and "thirty tails whacking words" around which definitely happens. Also, the relief after class, knowing I learned a lot and can go home and relax; I admire that feeling. This poem doesn't have any certain amount of lines for the 7 stanzas given, and the wording is kind of choppy; it definitely doesn't flow that well. It's neat how the author relates a classroom full of students to a bunch of fish in an aquarium. That analogy he paints in my head makes the experience he is talking about all the more vivid.