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#110047 08/17/03 03:43 AM
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classrooms of yore

Yet learning by rote
Produced intellect of note,
The McGuffey Reader
A strong instructural leader,
Reciting stories and poems
Drove language skills home.

And they'd "cypher" their math
In a similar path.

But I defer to the WorthlesswordMaster's alarm
And mean no school masterish or marmish harm.









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Yet learning by rote
Produced intellect of note


What intellect of note
Was ever spawned "by rote"?
More likely it was creatured
By revolt against the teacher.


#110049 08/17/03 03:56 PM
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Chaucer:
"Whanne that April with his shoures sote
The droughte of March hath perced to the rote."


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"Whanne that April with his shoures sote
The droughte of March hath perced to the rote."


T. S. Eliot

"APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain."

[Hmm. Does Eliot owe a debt to Chaucer?]


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Dear vbq: Thanks for the Eliot quote. I sent me on a most pleasant browse.


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It sent me on a most pleasant browse.

Whither did you browse ... into Wasteland, perhaps?



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I use only Yahoo!s Search Box, just T.S.Eliot Wasteland, and I got enough sites to keep me busy quite a while, because I never looked him up before. I'd heard the "cruelest month" before but had my own interpretation of it, which is one of the charms of poetry. Of which I am
pathetically ignorant.











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Of which I am pathetically ignorant.

As written in your post, it could be termed "parenthetically ignorant," perhaps - but pathetic, you are never, my dear Bill.



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Dear RC: thank you for your kind words. I think I was botrn with a set of invisible earmuffs that deprive me of comprehension of most poetry.


#110056 08/19/03 02:27 PM
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a set of invisible earmuffs that deprive me of comprehension of most poetry

Did you hear that, WordWind? When you start teaching your English class this year, you'd better be on the lookout for those invisible earmuffs. Removing them should make the poetry teaching a lot easier!


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