Terence,_This_Is_Stupid_Stuff

Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff Terence, this is stupid stuff A.E. Housman’s “Terence, this is stupid stuff” is a poem that starts out as a friend of Terence talking to him, but it then shifts to Terence talking to his friends. Then shifts from a humorous tone to a more serious tone. It also shifts in setting, time, place, and idea. This poem demonstrates figurative language which is “language employing figures of speech; language that cannot be taken literally or only literally” (1488). This poem also has several different poetic devices, which is a device that contributes to content and poetic structure that does not involve meaning in term of language. This poem in certain lines is very hard to follow without knowing the background. The first verse of this poem Terence friend is speaking to him about how sad all his poems are; all of them are about death. His friend is telling him he needs to lighten up and get drunk. His friend says, “It gives a chap the belly-ache. . . / To hear such tunes as killed the cow” (6,10). Terence’s friend is referring to Terence’s poetry. He is also referring terence, poem, poetry, verse, friend, tone, says, language, time, malt, good, drunk, about, talking, stupid, stuff, speech, shifts, setting, sad, poetic, place, life, idea, example, world, terence’s, telling, story, serious, saying, say, rhythm