George Herbert Is Dead and He Doesn't Care

I hate it when I have to write papers that I feel are extremely irrelevant to my education. Like, okay, so George Herbert was a great poet. But I can't wring three pages of material out of a 14-line poem of his. And frankly,



a. He's long dead, and doesn't care what I have to say about his poems

b. If I'm planning on becoming an elementary school teacher or a writer, or whatever I'm doing, I don't think I'm going to need to know how to defend George Herbert as a poet.