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Old 08-24-2011, 07:33 AM   #1
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I never said I was a Keats scholar. I was making fun of Keats scholars!!

(I'm a Plathian scholar - way, waaaaay worse. Your worst nightmare. )
OMG.. My youngest daughter was assigned a semester long project last year on Sylvia. She was not impressed. (She did ace it though.) You are a scarey scarey person Brianna!
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Old 08-24-2011, 08:17 AM   #2
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Said the Keats scholar! Hah!

Is there anyone who read more than one third of Lord Foul's Bane? I know several who have started it, but none who finished it.
Yeah, I read the first three Thomas Covenant books when I was 17. I liked Lord Foul's Bain, the rest sucked. I liked Robert E. Howard, too.
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Old 08-24-2011, 09:15 AM   #3
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OMG.. My youngest daughter was assigned a semester long project last year on Sylvia. She was not impressed. (She did ace it though.) You are a scarey scarey person Brianna!
I'm hurt!


What didn't impress your daughter? the person or the poetry?
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic.

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Old 08-24-2011, 10:02 AM   #4
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Her position is that Plath is only famous because she killed herself. The Emo thing has lost its allure through over-use in the present generation.
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Old 08-24-2011, 10:16 AM   #5
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Her position is that Plath is only famous because she killed herself. The Emo thing has lost its allure through over-use in the present generation.
Oh no!

Ariel was a tour de force! The poetry is phenomenal!! Not the lurid details of her life - !!

She's too young to see that.
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Old 08-24-2011, 10:29 AM   #6
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This is a kid who instinctively figured out what utter nonsense Catholicism was at about 10 years of age... it took me about 30 more years than that. She is perceptive to the point that I worry about her.
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Old 08-24-2011, 10:37 AM   #7
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This is a kid who instinctively figured out what utter nonsense Catholicism was at about 10 years of age... it took me about 30 more years than that. She is perceptive to the point that I worry about her.
a smart cookie.

IMHO the poetry would stand without the salacious details of the poets life.

"Viciousness in the kitchen" is a truly great line.
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