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Sep 19, 2005 00:03

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liver86 September 20 2005, 00:34:49 UTC
"I love poetry that tells a story..."
Same here, especially long ones where the character learns somthing in the end, almost like a short story.

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roger_kuin September 21 2005, 15:19:03 UTC
Personally, I thought the raindrop wasn't bad -- Sir Philip Sidney used the same image when he said of two lovers "Wept they had, alas, thewhile/But now tears themselves did smile" -- the idea is that a tear or a raindrop is like a convex mirror, if you look closely enough.

Poems that tell a story are great -- and kids love them. Lord Macaulay's "Lays of Ancient Rome"; "John Gilpin", Browning's dramatic monologues; and, of course, the Iliad.......

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