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07-24-2011, 11:58 AM
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Instead of reading the last part of Tennyson's Ulysses, why not read the last part of James Joyce's Ulysses? I guarantee you will have their full attention.
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07-24-2011, 12:09 PM
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Yes........
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07-24-2011, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by W.F. Lantry
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Well, that'll tell them how their professors feel, or at least their older professors. (I do love that poem, though.)
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07-25-2011, 12:33 AM
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Ithaka- it's the Hallmark choice, but there's a reason for that - it can be hastening or tarrying, coming or going - and it's so much fun to read.
Frank
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07-25-2011, 04:17 AM
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Frank,
Auden's riff off "Ithaka"--"Atlantis"--might be even more fun to read...
Dave
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07-25-2011, 09:07 AM
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Just for the fun of it, here's the last verse of Thomas Hardy's
"An Ancient to Ancients":
And ye, red-lipped and smooth-browed, list,
Gentlemen:
Much is there waits you we have missed;
Much lore we leave you worth the knowing,
Much, much has lain outside our ken:
Nay, rush not: Time serves: We are going,
Gentlemen.
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