Pretty Prosy Poem

"If all the world was apple pie

And all the sea was ink,

And all the trees were bread and cheese,

What would we have to drink?"

--anonymous

We have been reading a lot of poetry in AP Lit recently. I kind of liked this poem. Not sure why, it's kind of whimsical, but perhaps this is why I like it. Yesterday we read "The Flea" by John Donne and that was really...something else. We broke down that poem and peeled back all his fluffy language and dug our way through his metaphors only to discover that he was trying to seduce a woman using the analogy of a flea. Classy, John, classy.