G***dammit!!
 

Look, ya'll. I did indeed post this in Home Base, but, looky. If I posted it anywhere else, NO ONE WOULD CARE! I need help with poetry homework. Who can help? Poem is: terence, this is stupid stuff, with lots of mind boggling questions. All you english majors--Pony the F*ck up! Oh, and, thanks. :blush:

I can't stand poetry... I really can't. I had the bare minimum contact with it consistent with getting through English.

And so, it's surely some kind of fucking miracle that you cite a poem I recognize. What are the chances? At any rate, good luck.

i am belonging to the "you didn't go to the riiiiight prep school" group. we are legion

A.E. Houseman. I wrote a paper on him once. What's your question, or are you just complaining about being forced to read Houseman? (I didn't go to prep school, BTW ;) )

What no offers like the one that got tw to respond last time? :)

Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure
Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure,
I’d face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.
’Tis true, the stuff I bring for sale
Is not so brisk a brew as ale:


Jesuspleaseus:thepain3: ... I thought I had drunk enough over the years to kill off the brain cells that held all the poetry I once knew.....

question: ESP. Mari--English major Extra--

OK-there is a parable in the poem. what is that parable?

PPS-- do not be cute. I NEED this. I know all you smart people know this--but---oh, screw it. I need help!

I pm'ed Bri with the long version, and I won't subject the rest of you to Houseman, but in case anyone is curious, the short answer is the two fables are Mithrades and "The Grasshopper and the Ant."

Hope I helped, Bri!

ah, YOU DID! many, many thanks!!!!!! (thank you, mari!)