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Ann ([personal profile] capri0mni) wrote 2017-01-18 11:50 am (UTC)

Now, this poem has been a favorite of mine ever since I first encountered it, as a freshman in college. The wordplay and word pairs in each line are delicious.

So this is often a sonnet I'll look for, for individual readings on YouTube. When I first started searching I was struck that the videos made of it were most often from Russian and German accounts.

Not surprising. But it does make a point, and I think the vloggers who make their own "fanvids" of this poem, even though English is their second (or third, or fourth) language, have a better sense of the poem's meaning than the "official" study guides I've seen from American publishers.


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