Poetry #2b
Jan. 18th, 2004 12:16 am1. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot
2. The Lady of Shalott, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. I picked the only stanza that didn't end in "Shalott". I suppose that one was a gimme.
3. The Ballad of East and West, Rudyard Kipling
4. The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost. I think this is one of his three most well-known poems.
5. Kublai Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
6. The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Anyone who has noticed a slight bias towards Kipling and Frost, no, you're not imagining things. They're my two favorite poets. :-)
I would have thought more people would have tried their hand at these, since they were actually easier than the first round. I mean, all of them are in modern English, and a couple are really well-known, or should be. Feh.
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