Logic is math; math logic.

Who did that one?

well at least you have a plan . . . (it is nice to prepared i suppose) on a more serious note, since i am supposing e.e. cummings is not your most favorite of poets, who may i ask is? (i am genuinely curious, as i am on a mission to read the best that poetry has to offer) -mega

It's that whole dictionary.com thing again. Bastards think they know everything.

The fish takes the place of a score rather than is present as a score. Otherwise you must answer two questions: (i) What do you think the value of a fish is in association football. (ii) How does a team go about obtaining a fish on the scoresheet.

Incidentally, a study's shown that something like 80% of American college professors are liberals, no lie. And only 50% of them were gay.

Oh. Do you think the woman in the poem has the right to expect that her husband will genuinely want (and wholeheartedly try) to please her?

I'm not feeling it. If I were forced (probably at gunpoint) to name my favorite ee cummings line, I'd probably say "I will not kiss your fucking flag", which is not a great line of poetry, just a great use of the word fucking. If pressed further, I'd probably just trump and try to escape in the confusion. -zodia

Yes, but this is Standard Bumling Response #[funny number].

Both of you, please re-read the Frost poem. As you're bound to have been taught in Comp I (and since forgotten), Frost means the road not taken doesn't make any difference except to some guy who thinks it did because he's bum and people tend to think things make differences when they don't. To reiterate: Frost says I SHALL BE TELLING THIS WITH A SIGH Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the road less traveled by And that has made all the difference. [Emphasis added] In other words, the poem's about someone saying something, not about the truth or untruth of the something itself. Doug only says "And that has made all the difference." That's not only a bad ripoff, it's the exact opposite, like when Puff Daddy sampled that Sting song and made it all sweet and totally different. I've made pretty clear on this site before that I'm a big believer in the general coolness of higher education. This despite that the ranks of grad students and former grad students on poemranker include Doug PhD, crystal lane swift, a horde of other bumlings I've already forgotten, and myself. This is just offensive to me, not to mention a little frightening. An electroman1979 I can forgive, but you guys are supposed to know better.

The part I took issue with is "disparity". It struck me that chimera means something not necessarily disparate - that in fact it's almost certainly not. Now I'm not so sure. Rather, only a little ashamed of myself.

Yes, I am serious. I wonder what it does for your Christian-humanist Weltanschauung that I'm a volunteer Retard Islam teacher in the Middle East, while you're just a volunteer "Moonlight Hike" organizer in Texas, and I'm not even a real Human-Christianist. re: your abstract. You remind me of the study I did in my undergrad years concluding that Intrinsically-Gay Gays, Commited-Gay Gays, and Truly-Gay Gays scored markedly higher on a Gayness Test than Casually Gay Gays, Only-Seemingly-Gay Gays, and Total-NonGays. We also noted that Gays often (but not always) tended to describe their lives as "Generally Gay".