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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
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Well they've done that in the show
edited 27th Feb '14 5:03:54 PM by storyyeller
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayDid somebody mention twerking?
So I'm going through some of my old files looking for inspiration, and check out this section from an old college paper:
One of the best examples of this change in attitudes is “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Written in 1854, “Charge” is a fifty-five-line poem detailing a heroic cavalry charge of Russian cannon batteries. Six hundred mounted soldiers take part in the charge which leaves many of the six hundred dead, and does seemingly very little damage to the Russians, since the cannons the cavalry went to attack are still firing on them during the retreat. The poem is written in a way so as to be superficially glorifying the charge, thereby parodying older works that glorified war in earnest. However, the glory of the charge is purely superficial, and the reader is meant to realize that the charging cavalry accomplished nothing but to get themselves killed, since the cannons are still firing as the Light Brigade retreated.
Oh, younger me, how naive you were. XD
No. Get that out of here now.
edited 27th Feb '14 5:18:10 PM by KingKix
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edited 27th Feb '14 5:24:59 PM by KingKix
Dakota's blog An odd agent of justiceDon't forget Filli Vanilli.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play^^ Because it turns out that no, Tennyson was playing the glory of war trope completely straight in that poem. When I read it at the time I thought that the act he described was so blatantly stupid and futile that all the glory and praise he was heaping upon it could only be sarcastic, because no one could possibly find getting upwards of 600 of your own people killed for nothing to be praise-worthy. Turned out I was wrong; some people really are that stupid.
I always ran into the opposite problem. Most poetry and lit crit in general seemed to be to be stuff that was way overthinking it and almost certainly not what the author intended. I quickly discovered that passing poetry is all about making up crap according to a formula and writing an essay of nonsense to support it regardless of what you actually beleive.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlaySame thing about literature. All you need on a literature essay is to spout some pretentious preferably patriotic nonsense about the work, and the braindead empty shell of a teacher will give you an A(5, which is our equivalent of an A. We use a numbered system), with a plus if it doesn't actually cover any of the work's themes.
Ironically, that was basically the approach I took to most of my poetry writing classes: turn in something that sounded halfway good, and then wait for someone else in the class to suggest a deeper meaning I liked the sound of and be all, "yeah, that's right, you got it." :P
Speaking of which, I ended up going with an old poem I wrote about a flag burning I attended as a teenager for my group tonight, because I didn't manage to write anything new. I'm giving myself a pass on it tonight because I busted my hump so hard last week to make the contest deadline, but if I don't make up for it next week by having a full chapter of my book done, I'm dropping WoW again.
I'm still mad that one of my classmates got a better grade on his The Poisonwood Bible essay than me despite not even reading the book.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play@Story Sounds about right. Reading the book would develop understanding, opinions, and thoughts, and down that path lies evil.

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