FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for May 29, 2009

I love how the mouth is drawn in this one, it expresses his feelings better than anything else could have. I would have only gotten the name and date questions as well.

how can any one not recognize the clasic Ozzimandius???

Hey, Oz!

Yeah, that was a good poem. I liked Ode to the West Wind too though. To A Skylark was nice too.

My absolute favorite has t o be Love’s Philosophy, though.

Makes you wonder how such a romantic writer could be married to the author of Frankenstein.

He and she were at a 3 month long orgy with Byron and his sister on Lake Greneva when she wrote Frankenstein.

I remember having to do this stuff. While reading all those stories, plays, and books was cool, I don’t see how the compare-and-contrast assignments helped for later-in-life. I still enjoy reading, but probably despite schoolwork like this.

I dunno. For me it was always a cool brain exercise, but then English was my favorite subject.

Rain check please…. Mind hurts now…

Good strategy, Pete.

in one of my English classes, the teacher would wake me, i’d answer the question, and he’d let me go back to sleep. i introduced him to my Mom as “Stretcho”, and when she expressed her incredulity, he just replied, “I’ve been called worse.” always appreciated his style, and am still never without a book in hand. (just never really got into poetry)

At least Peter remembered a snippet of “Andrea del Sarto”:

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/andrea-del-sarto/

Lew, yes I knew that. The four of them had a bet on who could write the scariest tale by the end of the trip. Mary won.

Ozzimandius, you’d be surprised how many people never learn about Ozzimandius. If not for the Watchmen movie, I’d never have checked it out online.

Then there’s always Shelley’s Elephantmandias

I met a traveler from an antique land Who said “Two vast and legless trunks of stone Stand in the forest… Nearby on a pedestal these words appear — ‘My name is Babar, King of Kings , look on My works Ye mighty and despair.’”

http://howlandbolton.com/essays/read_more.php?sid=83

I was about to actually answer those questions down here until I found out that they were poems and not songs…