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White_Rabbit
Re: Thursday OPP
falcon:The problem, for me, is that Espy's poem isn't fun. Excuse the snort, but it's hectoring, pedantic, and supercilious. I guess the third stanza is ironic, but the rest of the poem is not. That's a little sloppy. He's trying to shoehorn all his pet peeves in. The last couplet: is that a dig at William Cullen Bryant, or what? That last ...
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July 23, 2009