Sorry I haven't written all week. It's been hard to get access to the internet, because my dad is always using the desktop to burn discs. That means I haven't been able to spend time on Facebook, haven't been able to check my email, or anything.
I figured I'd talk about the weirdness from last Thursday first. Everyone knows Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," right? I for one studied it in elementary (home)school. You know, "Whose woods these are I think I know, his house is in the village though, he will not see me stopping here to see the woods fill up with snow..." Well, my professor came up with a...special...hypothesis. He said that the speaker was...Santa Claus. He also said that the "little horse" was actually a reindeer (called a horse because of the need for certain syllables).
He went through the poem and made the analogy for each line. I sat there, shaking and almost crying with laughter, and he looked up at me and said, "It's not that funny, is it?"
"Yes - yes it is."
I figured I'd talk about the weirdness from last Thursday first. Everyone knows Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," right? I for one studied it in elementary (home)school. You know, "Whose woods these are I think I know, his house is in the village though, he will not see me stopping here to see the woods fill up with snow..." Well, my professor came up with a...special...hypothesis. He said that the speaker was...Santa Claus. He also said that the "little horse" was actually a reindeer (called a horse because of the need for certain syllables).
He went through the poem and made the analogy for each line. I sat there, shaking and almost crying with laughter, and he looked up at me and said, "It's not that funny, is it?"
"Yes - yes it is."
This is an interesting interpretation. I can see laughing, I know I did while reading this. Could his point have been that a sufficiently committed and intelligent person can argue anything? I guess that I assume his intelligence, but I try not to think poorly of people from second hand impressions alone.
ReplyDeleteOh, he's intelligent. Sometimes I think he goes out of his way to be provocative, though.
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