No Words Quite Suffice

Nov 22, 2008 21:56

Those of you who were in my 8th grade English class may remember this (but probably not ( Read more... )

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analise_emue November 23 2008, 04:06:51 UTC
I do remember you saying that, actually. And if I laughed I'm sure it was because others were. Because I remember thinking what you said made a lot more sense. In fact, I don't remember the Santa Claus bit at all; just your interpretation of it.

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pentari November 23 2008, 09:07:20 UTC
er...i don't remember if i had english with you. did we all have the same teacher...?

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dark_amaranth November 23 2008, 15:57:27 UTC
yeah, i think we did.

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crimson_swan November 23 2008, 16:41:20 UTC
oh! i remember the santa clause interpretation too.

hahaha!~ ^_^

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mylifewill November 23 2008, 16:54:03 UTC
i just read this post to my roommate who replied, "what the hell? that wasn't about santa!!!"

and he went to private school too, so his word is truth.

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anonymous November 23 2008, 18:18:38 UTC
hey,

i'd never even once considered that that poem could possibly be about santa clause--let alone that it *was* by some authoritative sanction--until i read this just now. it works, i suppose, but i also took the poem in a trenchant manner. maybe it was because my first conversation about the poem was bringing it up in AP european history as a sort of abstracted-hyperbolic anthem for high school scholarship, at which point my teach replied that it was what got him through law school.

what i mean by that is, i don't think santa clause got him through law school.

funny how close the comic and tragic, though.

take care,

jessi

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