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Daysleeper
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0 posted 2000-05-22 07:49 PM



(I had my History of Poetry final today, and this is how I felt. LOL)

"To the Virgins Make Much Ado?"
Nothing but Shakespeare and Emerson too,
Colridge and Shelley; Housman and Poe,
"Of Life in a Raven?" Was that Thoreau?

Donne, Milton, Virgil, "Batter my Knee!"
Tells of Beelzebub, and his voyage at sea!
No wait that's Aeneas! and Paradise lost,
"Tiger and Ice." Was that Blake or Frost?

Good God! I'm lost!

...Daysleeper...

 "We prefer to do things comfortably" said the Controller.
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Alright then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." -Aldous Huxley "Brave New World"



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Poet deVine
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Hurricane Alley
1 posted 2000-05-22 08:16 PM


LOL....I hope you get an A..your poem deserves one....let us know how you fared!!!  
Aimster
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2 posted 2000-05-22 09:39 PM


daysleeper

this was great! i really enjoyed reading it and it made me laugh. thank you!

amy  

 ~Live today as though it were your last but prepare for tomorrow as though it were here~

netswan
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since 2000-03-28
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3 posted 2000-05-23 12:48 PM


hahahah Daysleeper - sounds like you know
more 'bout the "greats" than me --)
Loved this.  Hope you got the grade you
earned ---)

~netswan

Daysleeper
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since 2000-04-23
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4 posted 2000-05-23 06:27 PM



Thank you, you three. I made an 'A' actually... amazingly enough. I think the teacher needs his head examined... but thanks for the response!

...Daysleeper...


 "We prefer to do things comfortably" said the Controller.
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Alright then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." -Aldous Huxley "Brave New World"



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