Songs and poetry?

What is it with all this learning of songs and poetry and Russians? Do all Russians really "dig" poetry or something? I hate poetry. I have these two Russian teachers always bringing poems to me and wanting me to learn them. I'm going nuts, I'd rather read a medical manual. Now I have been given a song by ДДТ to translate. I hate them too! But....I suppose they are better than Yani or Michael Bolton.
OK so shoot me, I guess I am not Elegant and Cultured after all.

Oh look I can add a poll to this hmm!

Why is ur name DDT then yo?

Big fan of insecticides, p'raps?

There's a time and a place for poetry, surely. I doubt Shakespeare's plays would have the same power if they were written in straight prose, for example, and I can happily sit and read Burns. On the other hand, I was made to read a whole load of English poetry at school that just turned me off completely, I simply couldn't see the point in it.

So, erm, dunno :)

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Originally Posted by Dogboy182

Why is ur name DDT then yo?

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Because if you were invited to a dinner party and told to bring a friend you would get about the same reaction showing up with me as you would with a bottle of DDT.

I pretend to like it to get girls.