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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.DESIGN I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, On a white heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth--... -
The Lobster and the Quiet Fire —In the style of Robert Frost I met a lobster down a tide-worn shore, Where kelp swung low and brine did...
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread The Mighty Reese Bassline.Ahhhhh funkystepz were so good.
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pls dont let some nerd tell me this is not strictly reese for some complicated technical reason
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Dang that varmint's raucous bark As brown and scratchy as that tree Which itself possesses too a bark But which itself sits silently And...
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.You're kneeling at that well-curb in the wrong way again, you fucking dickhead.
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He sought to legitimise his yokel persona by owning a farm, just like Jeremy Clarkson 2,000 years later.
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.Not an exact analogy, but you might say Frost was more like Wordsworth than John Clare.
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Sincerety is a very American concept isn't it, and central I guess to the artlessness indictment. Trilling, David Foster Wallace...
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I don't know whether the poem is good and can only interpret so far but I read it that the wolf is patiently waiting for whatever's...
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread American Artlessness.Not a yokel persona and no attempt to use colloquial language, which is what his entire work often gets reduced to. Look at the words he...
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The OED - the widely accepted authoritative source of English in the world. But of course you don’t accept it. Obviously.
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Benny Bunter replied to the thread Poetry.@version I'd have to go back to the olson poem again to understand any of that tbh, I can't really remember it apart from the first and...
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Eliot also had problems with the technical demands. His cat poems are all over the place. He was 'artless' in lacking basic skills but...
