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"The Center Cannot Hold" > "Empty Night"
Bad Alias:
I bet you I won't. I've never been too interested in poetry.
Conspiracy Theorist:
The was a young chap called Bad Alias
Whose dislike of poetry was far from spontaneous
When offered just verse
He said “nothing worse”
And declared it wholly extraneous.
On a read through of Christmas Eve we of course have “A Visit From St Nicholas” by Clement Clark Moore alluded to in the first paragraph.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on October 30, 2020, 07:10:15 PM ---The was a young chap called Bad Alias
Whose dislike of poetry was far from spontaneous
When offered just verse
He said “nothing worse”
And declared it wholly extraneous.
--- End quote ---
;D
Well, I have always enjoyed the occasional limerick. In my AP English class, our final exam was a group project where we had to write a poem incorporating the works we had read that year. We only had a few guys in the class, and we were all one group. All the other groups had pretty straightforward poems.
Ours was more ... humorous. Our poem was from the 1st person perspective. We had read A Modest Proposal and The Pearl, so naturally we had the narrator steal Coyotito to eat him.
Conspiracy Theorist:
The thing to remember is that Jim is a bibliophile, English major and professional writer (indoors work not requiring a tie) so poetry is in the DNA of the series from Storm Front onwards.
You may not like poetry, but Jim has been slipping it to you subliminally for two decades, you have no choice.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on October 30, 2020, 11:06:40 PM ---The thing to remember is that Jim is a bibliophile, English major and professional writer (indoors work not requiring a tie) so poetry is in the DNA of the series from Storm Front onwards.
You may not like poetry, but Jim has been slipping it to you subliminally for two decades, you have no choice.
--- End quote ---
Poetry can be quite nice. It just requires more effort from the reader.
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