tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26800186.post8157750825378941205..comments2024-03-25T10:07:31.278-07:00Comments on There is no such thing as a God-forsaken town: FrostRuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12463332371535167975noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26800186.post-22135442834526867742007-12-21T09:52:00.000-08:002007-12-21T09:52:00.000-08:00Oh, and Janet, on the parody question - I guess it...Oh, and Janet, on the parody question - I guess it depends what you are parodying about the poem, if it's the ideas behind it or the form or what. I guess I compare it to teasing a beloved family member. :-)Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12463332371535167975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26800186.post-55086036620799411742007-12-21T09:51:00.000-08:002007-12-21T09:51:00.000-08:00Janet, oh, how many things were ruined by our shar...Janet, oh, how many things were ruined by our shared experience with modern poetry in college. Sad, really. I hope I don't ruin poetry for my students the way that class did for me. I try not to. Fortunately I went into the class loving poetry and I came out still loving poetry, just not lots of the stuff we read in there.<BR/><BR/>Cloudscome, yes, it's deceptively simple but there's more than meets the eye.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12463332371535167975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26800186.post-29994038326062886892007-12-21T08:53:00.000-08:002007-12-21T08:53:00.000-08:00I get more out of that Frost poem every time I rea...I get more out of that Frost poem every time I read it. Layers and layers there! The contrasts of the beauty with the melancholy, the horse's sense and the human's philosophical ramblings, the quiet/sounds, the light/dark, the future plans and hints of death...<BR/><BR/>Oy.Andromeda Jazmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12355192738014962965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26800186.post-56397690263060909482007-12-21T06:34:00.000-08:002007-12-21T06:34:00.000-08:00I can appreciate this, and don't think "mockery" i...I can appreciate this, and don't think "mockery" is a synonym for "parody." :-) I liked both yours and Dr. Bacchus's, though I felt sorry for the poor little horse in Dr. Bacchus's.<BR/><BR/>At the same time, I can't really imagine writing a parody without poking fun at the original. I like to parody "The Red Wheelbarrow," for instance, because I think the original is a little silly (and forever marred by our shared experience with modern poetry in college!)<BR/><BR/>I guess I think of parody as a branch of satire, designed to highlight flaws and hypocrisy. But maybe that's too narrow, huh?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com