On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High In his poem, “On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High”, the author, David Chapman Berry, has relied on metaphors and similes to carry out his view of a typical literature class and a teacher’s view of teaching. The setting of the poem is in a senior literature class, at South High School. The speaker in this poem is a teacher, who …showed first 75 words of 976 total…

…showed last 75 words of 976 total…This can be a very monotone job, but when he started reading poetry to the students, a certain fascination arose within the classroom. The students were interested. The teacher’s day-to-day job was given a highlight. The school bell is the negative factor in this poem, which causes disruption. It causes the students to go on with their lives, and leave behind a person, who tried to bond with them inside this “aquarium” – the teacher.