Lake 举人
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 1286
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Posted: 2009-04-02 06:55:09 Post subject: Clerihew |
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American poet Robert Frost,
whose two roads many have never crossed.
Someone taunted him, “You write on subjects”,
“You write bric-a-brac”, said he, with respect. _________________ the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry -- Billy Collins |
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kino 秀才
Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 411 Location: beijing kinoCollection |
Posted: 2009-04-03 02:14:37 Post subject: |
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不过我还挺喜欢他的 |
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Lake 举人
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 1286
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Posted: 2009-04-03 05:25:56 Post subject: |
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I like that old fella, too.
Just tried to write something funny. But it's not, I know. _________________ the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry -- Billy Collins |
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博弈 榜眼
Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 4381 Location: SFO 博弈Collection |
Posted: 2009-04-08 08:19:05 Post subject: |
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good, like it.
Lake is almost known for liking Robert Frost;
if wanting to be closer to that poem,
"whose two roads many have never crossed"
may also be expressed as
whose "Two roads diverged in a" forest
though Frost and forest a little rhyme variation,
but fun for a Clerihew
a copy of that poem for readers;
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
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.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. _________________ (在不斷的審醜裡終將建立起新的審美) |
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Lake 举人
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 1286
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Posted: 2009-04-08 15:55:58 Post subject: |
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whose "Two roads diverged in a" forest |
What a great funny line with that "forest" at the end! Can I steal it, Mark?
American poet Robert Frost,
whose two roads diverged in a forest.
Someone taunted him, “You write on subjects”,
“You write bric-a-brac”, said he, with respect.
Thanks much! _________________ the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry -- Billy Collins |
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博弈 榜眼
Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 4381 Location: SFO 博弈Collection |
Posted: 2009-04-08 19:45:37 Post subject: |
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who can argue now stealing is
not a virtue as he stole from a wood
did you trace him into one road
did i catch him in the other
that presentable as a poem's merit
_________________ (在不斷的審醜裡終將建立起新的審美) |
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Lake 举人
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 1286
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Posted: 2009-04-09 07:51:17 Post subject: |
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博弈 wrote: |
who can argue now stealing is
not a virtue as he stole from a wood
did you trace him into one road
did i catch him in the other
that presentable as a poem's merit
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How true!
now that presentable.
偷就偷彻底吧。 去掉引号。 _________________ the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry -- Billy Collins |
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William Zhou周道模 探花
Joined: 10 Jun 2007 Posts: 3950 Location: 中国四川广汉 William Zhou周道模Collection |
Posted: 2009-04-10 14:22:59 Post subject: |
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read, studied, thanks! _________________ 诗歌是灵魂的歌唱.
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Lake 举人
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 1286
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Posted: 2009-05-04 14:40:42 Post subject: |
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It's not very funny. Some say, I need to be a little bit mean. So this is not mean enough.
学做坏人也不容易。 _________________ the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry -- Billy Collins |
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