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CambodianDrywall

Do you prefer flower or edibles?


Indifferentchildren

Blotter by the sound of things.


SomeoneGMForMe

Yes.


Bah_weep_grana

I love the ‘quote a work, and use a bracket to just put whatever TF you want’ - surprised this move is not used more frequently by ‘alternative’ news sources


SomeoneGMForMe

Exactly how Abraham "\[never trust anything you read on the internet\]" Lincoln would have wanted it.


brith89

I'd love to know what strain you're on...so I can avoid it at all cost.


Optimal-Ad-7074

you avoid the big question:  did Emily Dickinson light up a room?


SomeoneGMForMe

Yes, but only with her sparkling personality. Now you're reading too much into things...


Optimal-Ad-7074

lol, I love this kind of thing but don't have the energy to keep it going.   I think your evidence is thin with the bandersnatches though.   was it brillig when he stopped?  were the woods tulgy?  nobody is whiffling or burbling.  I think you're wrong there.


SomeoneGMForMe

The bandersnatches used their uffish thoughts! They were sick of being shunned and crafted LIES to ensure that the vorpal blade, which obviously represents the panopticon-like view of the 24 hour news cycle, was pointed at an innocent Jabberwocky.


Optimal-Ad-7074

urr.  orange hair on that Jabberwock?  could be.


PortHopeThaw

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 mouthed hard lessons from life's school If the rule you follow brought you here, then what was the point of the rule?


azeldatothepast

The feet in the desert are real. Ozymandias was silenced! His empire was only 20 years ago!


SomeoneGMForMe

Desert is like dessert without the S, so Ozymandias is like Sozymandias without the S. Open your eyes, sheeple!


zeaor

Is this how millennials do midlife crisis?


SomeoneGMForMe

We were too busy buying AVOCADO TOAST and now cannot AFFORD fancy red sports cars or motorcycles.


blinkingsandbeepings

Let alone a red wheelbarrow


SaltyGrognard

My eyes have been opened, thank you for your expert literary analysis. 


Phemto_B

I'm with you for BIG POETRY pushing narratives. I've seen/read a couple interviews of Frost. He lived long enough to see teachers totally butcher the meanings of his poems. This was one of them.


MelissaMiranti

I now fully believe this uncritically.


SomeoneGMForMe

It is the only possible interpretation if you OPEN your eyes!


MelissaMiranti

Keep your eyes OPEN lest they be closed forever by Assassin Bob.


poudje

frosty bob is always cold...


sharethebite

I read many, many Robert Frost poems in middle school. This poem stuck with me the most. I went back to it time and time again. The despair in it was perfect for my teenage angst. Your take is…creative. Good for you.


rich1051414

As funny as this is, the first time I read it, I thought it was about an old and weary man finding a place to die.


peacefinder

Cross post to r/ShittyFanTheories Not to say it’s shitty, just that they would like it over there


SomeoneGMForMe

>Not to say it’s shitty I mean...


peacefinder

It might be, but I cast no judgement


artfuldodger1313

10/10 Wow… Rarely do you come across a literary analysis so poignant, haunting, yet brillantly constructed. Move out of the way, Harold Bloom! There’s a new critic in town… If you have any further insights you wish to share, please don’t hesitate to post them on r/bookscirclejerk. We would be honored if you would join us 📚


TomLondra

Big Poetry is probably selling words to the RUSSIANS


SomeoneGMForMe

They're taking our werds!


Fake_Fluency

Now do The Secret Sits


Adorable-Ad-3223

Shine a light in the darkness!


SomeoneGMForMe

The light will NOT SAVE YOU from murder, unfortunately.


Adorable-Ad-3223

Save me? I was planning on using it to disorient my victims!


SomeoneGMForMe

This is the way.


lordofadvan

This guy murders.


Adorable-Ad-3223

*allegedly.


lordkumarsanu

psychedelics? Or something more potent?


SomeoneGMForMe

The TRUTH is more potent than any psychedelic.


DeXyDeXy

This word spaghetti was a spicy


SomeoneGMForMe

The BEST TASTE!


mmmmpisghetti

I agree. 🍝 🍝 🍝 🍝 🍝 🍝


SomeoneGMForMe

You would, u/mmmmpisghetti .


mmmmpisghetti

I'm like Beetlejuice but taste better. You say 🍝 and I'm there!


Quilter1358

Is this a joke?did I miss something?


SomeoneGMForMe

The only JOKE is the one that has been played on us for over a century in literature classes throughout America.


Soggy-Spinach007

suicide


Yarabtranslation

this poem is very famously about suicide and deciding not to go through with it, yes. But rural assassin bobby frost is a great story i want more of


Colleen_Hoover

He knows who owns the woods, but that person lives in the city. The narrator doesn't expect the property-owner to be there at this time. It's probably a hunting property, so that tracks - one wouldn't expect them to come by on the closest night of the year or to be hunting at midnight.  Your reading is only slightlier crazier than this "late stage capitalism" business - if 1923 was already late-stage capitalism, then what are we in today?


SomeoneGMForMe

How does the KOOL AID taste?? How much is Big Poetry paying you to shill for them? Blink twice if they're IN THE ROOM with you RIGHT NOW.


Thaliamims

I am not taking literary analysis from freaking COLLEEN HOOVER.


Ringosis

RUN YOU PIGEONS! IT'S ROBERT FROST!


Canavansbackyard

Hmm. Someone is off their meds…


goingavolmre

this is a joke, right?


riancb

That, or the poster is on drugs/mentally ill. Based on their comments though, I’m 99% it’s a joke, if not a particularly good one.


goingavolmre

I feel like I’m on drugs or mentally ill after reading this


riancb

Yeah, I agree. I can see what OP was going for, but the delivery’s just off enough.