My Poetry Teacher

Anyone can dig a ditch, but it takes a real man to finish the sentence.

I’ve often heard the saying, “Anyone can dig a ditch, but it takes a real man to get out of it. “ To represent making your own problems, and solving them too.

It’s been over 5 years.
I still don’t have an answer to the riddle.
But my first thought is still always gonna be “IT TAKES A REAL MAN TO DIG HIS GRAVE”

Any man can dig a ditch, but it takes a real man to build a bridge

The hole is a metaphor for isolation, or to put yourself into a horrible situation. Anyone can isolate themselves from the world, and make decisions to their detriment, but it takes a real load of courage to work your way out of the situation

Edit: Took a creative writing elective this year that had a unit in poetry. Our teacher wasn’t depressed, she was manic

"Anyone can dig a ditch, but it takes a real man to put down the shovel" I was given the same poem by my English 2 teacher and I said that. The look on his face was priceless

I'm pretty sure the phrase is " anyone can dig a ditch, but it takes a real man to to fill it back up" as in anyone can start a task, but it takes a responsible and committed person to see it through to completion.

"Anyone can dig a ditch, but it takes a real man to confront his girlfriend about the snake in her refrigerator."

“Anyone can dig a ditch, but it takes a real man to get education to escape a restaurant.”

I had a 7th grade History teacher named Mr. Poe; he had a really cool voice, carried around a yardstick, and once threw a beach ball, intentionally missing a student

I’m in Latin right now. I actually think that it’s really fun and extremely useful. I can understand basic root words to over ten languages, and we learn mythology too.

Anyone can dig a ditch, but it takes a real man to dig further.

I took a poetry class in the 2nd grade once. I couldn't get out of it either, but those times were actually pretty fun

"Anyone can dig a ditch, but it takes a real man to realize he doesn't have to"

I went to the high school that my dad taught at, so I was actually pretty friendly with some of the teachers. Not a lot of them, and it helped that I was actually a decent student, but it was a nice feeling to know that these adults I was spending multple hours with each week at least had some good feelings towarda me.

James laughing at his own jokes is the best

Anyone can dig a ditch but it takes a real man to control his emotions
I think that's poetic enough

As someone who loves writing poetry and has loved learning Latin for the past two years, I'm gonna say Latin is far more useful and I never actually learned much in literature classes in high school that helped with my writing, but learning grammar and roots of words from Latin has

As someone who is friends with teachers, I still keep it professional and talk to them outside of their classes as well as never using their first name. I mean really, they're much older than me so the least I can do is respect them as an elder by adding a "Ms." or "Mr." to their name. Also I never even knew that poetry class was a thing because we always had to do Language Arts Literacy (LAL) and we hardly ever get to the parts of the book where we would read poems from there (which I like). So I would read those poems while the rest of the lesson was going on because I already read ahead of the story we were talking about.

Any man can dig a ditch, but it takes a real man to fill it. Anyone can make things worse for themselves, but it takes courage to turn it around and try to make it better. Also, congrats on #1 on trending!

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