Comments on: Poetry Wednesday http://www.clareified.com/2009/09/02/poetry-wednesday-3/ Nasty. Brutish. Short. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:27:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Fisch http://www.clareified.com/2009/09/02/poetry-wednesday-3/comment-page-1/#comment-254111 Fisch Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:28:37 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9061#comment-254111 Hmm, let's try again. Here's my addition to poetry wednesday. NSFW! http://dealbreaker.com/2009/08/post-114.php Hmm, let’s try again.
Here’s my addition to poetry wednesday. NSFW!
http://dealbreaker.com/2009/08/post-114.php

]]> By: Fisch http://www.clareified.com/2009/09/02/poetry-wednesday-3/comment-page-1/#comment-254110 Fisch Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:27:21 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9061#comment-254110 Here's my poetry for today: http://dealbreaker.com/2009/08/post-114.php NSFW! Here’s my poetry for today: http://dealbreaker.com/2009/08/post-114.php
NSFW!

]]> By: Dawn Summers http://www.clareified.com/2009/09/02/poetry-wednesday-3/comment-page-1/#comment-254081 Dawn Summers Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:13:49 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9061#comment-254081 Hahahaha that story abt frost on the tonight show is awesome Hahahaha that story abt frost on the tonight show is awesome

]]> By: pearatty http://www.clareified.com/2009/09/02/poetry-wednesday-3/comment-page-1/#comment-254080 pearatty Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:01:41 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9061#comment-254080 I also recall my high school AP English teacher, the forever beloved Ms. Kyl (and the reason I became an English major), saying that Robert Frost had appeared on the Tonight Show and was asked by the host (probably Jack Paar at that time), about the deep existential meaning of "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening". According to Ms. Kyl, Frost hollered: "I was RIDING MY HORSE, it was SNOWING, I stopped to look at a FARMHOUSE! That's the meaning!" Maybe a road is just a road. I also recall my high school AP English teacher, the forever beloved Ms. Kyl (and the reason I became an English major), saying that Robert Frost had appeared on the Tonight Show and was asked by the host (probably Jack Paar at that time), about the deep existential meaning of “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”. According to Ms. Kyl, Frost hollered: “I was RIDING MY HORSE, it was SNOWING, I stopped to look at a FARMHOUSE! That’s the meaning!”

Maybe a road is just a road.

]]> By: pearatty http://www.clareified.com/2009/09/02/poetry-wednesday-3/comment-page-1/#comment-254078 pearatty Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:52:05 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9061#comment-254078 Well, I think the poem is kind of about the fact that it does make a difference what road you take, but that there's not really a better road or worser road, just different roads, to which we later ascribe meaning. Well, I think the poem is kind of about the fact that it does make a difference what road you take, but that there’s not really a better road or worser road, just different roads, to which we later ascribe meaning.

]]> By: Petitedov http://www.clareified.com/2009/09/02/poetry-wednesday-3/comment-page-1/#comment-254070 Petitedov Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:51:41 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9061#comment-254070 I love Robert Frost, but I hate this poem. I was going to say the same thing as Ken, how I hate how the poem has been misread by high school students for years. Anyhoo, I think I'm not there yet, where I have come to terms with my decisions. I want to have the time machine to travel and tell my young self what I know about life. However, I love poetry Wednesdays! I love Robert Frost, but I hate this poem. I was going to say the same thing as Ken, how I hate how the poem has been misread by high school students for years.
Anyhoo, I think I’m not there yet, where I have come to terms with my decisions. I want to have the time machine to travel and tell my young self what I know about life.
However, I love poetry Wednesdays!

]]> By: CGHill http://www.clareified.com/2009/09/02/poetry-wednesday-3/comment-page-1/#comment-254062 CGHill Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:46:04 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9061#comment-254062 All else being equal, though, I'd just as soon take the road with the least traffic, assuming there actually <em>is</em> a road with the least traffic. Sometimes there isn't. All else being equal, though, I’d just as soon take the road with the least traffic, assuming there actually is a road with the least traffic. Sometimes there isn’t.

]]> By: Ken http://www.clareified.com/2009/09/02/poetry-wednesday-3/comment-page-1/#comment-254053 Ken Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:11:08 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9061#comment-254053 The poem is often misinterpreted as some sort of ode to being unique or taking the tougher road. What it's really about is taking a road that's just the exact same as the other and then "years hence" just sitting around like an old crank sighing with a little regret while misremembering just enough that the road he took was perhaps a little more unique, a little less traveled by so as to justify his path. (Seriously, it's like people TOTALLY go blind when they get to these lines: "Though as for that, the passing there/ Had worn them really about the same,/And both that morning equally lay/In leaves no step had trodden black) But what I'm really trying to say is you could totally take Robert Frost. The poem is often misinterpreted as some sort of ode to being unique or taking the tougher road. What it’s really about is taking a road that’s just the exact same as the other and then “years hence” just sitting around like an old crank sighing with a little regret while misremembering just enough that the road he took was perhaps a little more unique, a little less traveled by so as to justify his path. (Seriously, it’s like people TOTALLY go blind when they get to these lines: “Though as for that, the passing there/ Had worn them really about the same,/And both that morning equally lay/In leaves no step had trodden black)
But what I’m really trying to say is you could totally take Robert Frost.

]]> By: Dawn Summers http://www.clareified.com/2009/09/02/poetry-wednesday-3/comment-page-1/#comment-254048 Dawn Summers Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:38:00 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9061#comment-254048 yeah, I think that's where i basically come out too. Like maybe I could've been less lazy and more focussed on work, but then I wouldn't have had time to do the things that bring me much joy now. There's an old simpsons episode where bart ends up in hell, but the devil realizes he's taken bart too soon, so he lets him go back and says see you in forty years and bart's all "wait, is there a way i can avoid coming back here?" and the devil is like "yeah, but you wouldn't like it." and bart's like "youre probably right, okay, see you later." yeah, I think that’s where i basically come out too. Like maybe I could’ve been less lazy and more focussed on work, but then I wouldn’t have had time to do the things that bring me much joy now. There’s an old simpsons episode where bart ends up in hell, but the devil realizes he’s taken bart too soon, so he lets him go back and says see you in forty years and bart’s all “wait, is there a way i can avoid coming back here?” and the devil is like “yeah, but you wouldn’t like it.” and bart’s like “youre probably right, okay, see you later.”

]]> By: Angela http://www.clareified.com/2009/09/02/poetry-wednesday-3/comment-page-1/#comment-254043 Angela Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:22:34 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/?p=9061#comment-254043 "...I always wondered if I made the right choice. But right or wrong, it was that choice, and every choice of things done and undone since that has led me to where I am now." (I don't know how to get all fancy and italicize this quote of you in a comment.) I have been saying basically the same thing for a while now...and finally, maybe, I'm getting to a place that I don't hate. It's not the end all be all, but through all the mistakes and missteps I can't imagine my life being any other way. Well except for if I'd won the lottery years ago and was living on my private islands. So maybe I shoulda bought that ticket but other than that, I don't lament anything, I just accept that that was the choice I made and trust that I am on the right path, whether it's the road less travelled or the same one that all these other annoying douchebags are on too. “…I always wondered if I made the right choice. But right or wrong, it was that choice, and every choice of things done and undone since that has led me to where I am now.” (I don’t know how to get all fancy and italicize this quote of you in a comment.)

I have been saying basically the same thing for a while now…and finally, maybe, I’m getting to a place that I don’t hate. It’s not the end all be all, but through all the mistakes and missteps I can’t imagine my life being any other way. Well except for if I’d won the lottery years ago and was living on my private islands. So maybe I shoulda bought that ticket but other than that, I don’t lament anything, I just accept that that was the choice I made and trust that I am on the right path, whether it’s the road less travelled or the same one that all these other annoying douchebags are on too.

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