>The Wendy Cope poem is:
>a) a sequence of metrical & sociological clichés;
>b) a sequence of metrical & sociological clichés parading as satire;
>
>c) both of the above.
I may not think this was a great poem, but I did laugh, & ruefully at
times. Yes, it is on some level both of the above, but on another level
it's sort of a verse version of the kind of thing Christine Lavin does so
well. My wife & her best friend will laugh with recognition & then even
more wittily puncture my & my friend's more than occasional failures in
precisely the manner indicated...
I hate to admit it but...
sometimes the mirror does reflect
(speaking only from personal experience of course...)
Doug
{{Oh, I went to reply, which usually sends a note to poetryetc, but this
time it would have gone direct to Joe Duemer; has something happened to the
listserve?}}
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
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(for thomas a. clark)
alongthehorizongrewanunbrokenlineoftrees
bpNichol
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