Comments on: The Exam’s Hour http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/2009/01/14/the-exams-hour/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:55:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rufus http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/2009/01/14/the-exams-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-1571 Rufus Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:27:38 +0000 http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/?p=570#comment-1571 Awesome! Can I chew up your textbooks? Awesome! Can I chew up your textbooks?

]]> By: E. M. Hansen http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/2009/01/14/the-exams-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-1567 E. M. Hansen Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:42:54 +0000 http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/?p=570#comment-1567 I especially like the second-to-last stanza. For greater impact, you might exchange the wine for a few rats or a pendulum. &#58&#45&#41 The bit about Circe was also good; although it seems to deviate from your metric scheme, it also effectively shows the speaker's disorientation. I especially like the second-to-last stanza. For greater impact, you might exchange the wine for a few rats or a pendulum. &#58&#45&#41 The bit about Circe was also good; although it seems to deviate from your metric scheme, it also effectively shows the speaker’s disorientation.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/2009/01/14/the-exams-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-1560 Anonymous Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:51:54 +0000 http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/?p=570#comment-1560 To much poetry Can't you spend your time better? Please get back to work To much poetry
Can’t you spend your time better?
Please get back to work

]]> By: L. M. Corinth http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/2009/01/14/the-exams-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-1544 L. M. Corinth Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:20:48 +0000 http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/?p=570#comment-1544 I LOVE it. Excellent. I can't analyze it or say exactly what I liked, just now (debate round in an hour), but you made me laugh and I love it. :D I LOVE it. Excellent. I can’t analyze it or say exactly what I liked, just now (debate round in an hour), but you made me laugh and I love it. :D

]]> By: L. C. Russell http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/2009/01/14/the-exams-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-1543 L. C. Russell Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:03:36 +0000 http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/?p=570#comment-1543 Well, I can't take credit for most of the whimsical rhyming--lower and hour, for example, were in the original. Although I would agree that it, uh, doesn't work quite so well for my version. "Special Pathology and Diagnostics with Therapeutic Hints - 1900. Jaundice from violent mental emotion, especially anger, vexation, fright, etc, seems likely to be produced by interruptions of the circulation of blood through the liver in consequence of the influence of the nerves controlling the calibre of the brancches of the portal veins, and by interruptions of the heart's action. " Yes, I know it's dated over a century ago. That's from this link, which I submit as an excuse for my inexcusable medical mistake--http://www.tintinologist.org/forums/index.php?action=vthread&forum=8&topic=3002 The moral here would be not to borrow diagnoses from comic books. Well, I can’t take credit for most of the whimsical rhyming–lower and hour, for example, were in the original. Although I would agree that it, uh, doesn’t work quite so well for my version.

“Special Pathology and Diagnostics with Therapeutic Hints – 1900.

Jaundice from violent mental emotion, especially anger, vexation, fright, etc, seems likely to be produced by interruptions of the circulation of blood through the liver in consequence of the influence of the nerves controlling the calibre of the brancches of the portal veins, and by interruptions of the heart’s action. ”

Yes, I know it’s dated over a century ago. That’s from this link, which I submit as an excuse for my inexcusable medical mistake–http://www.tintinologist.org/forums/index.php?action=vthread&forum=8&topic=3002

The moral here would be not to borrow diagnoses from comic books.

]]> By: P. B. Hilton http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/2009/01/14/the-exams-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-1542 P. B. Hilton Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:48:31 +0000 http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/?p=570#comment-1542 In all honesty, I think this poem is disjointed and wandering. Overall, I don't quite get the parody part of it. It doesn't seem to be sarcastic, and isn't quite funny. It seems to be the same length as the original, but it changes direction at the end, which is puzzling, although it provides a good resolution. As a poem, it's middling, but I think your whimsical rhyming is harmful to the overall effect. Especially in the first stanza, where you try to rhyme lower and hour. And is yellowed jaundice really relevant...? However, where you didn't puzzle the reader outright, and where you rhymed, as in stanzas 3 and 5, the result was excellent. In all honesty, I think this poem is disjointed and wandering. Overall, I don’t quite get the parody part of it. It doesn’t seem to be sarcastic, and isn’t quite funny. It seems to be the same length as the original, but it changes direction at the end, which is puzzling, although it provides a good resolution. As a poem, it’s middling, but I think your whimsical rhyming is harmful to the overall effect. Especially in the first stanza, where you try to rhyme lower and hour. And is yellowed jaundice really relevant…? However, where you didn’t puzzle the reader outright, and where you rhymed, as in stanzas 3 and 5, the result was excellent.

]]> By: L. C. Russell http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/2009/01/14/the-exams-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-1540 L. C. Russell Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:45:49 +0000 http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/?p=570#comment-1540 It's a play on the "examined" life. In this case, literally. Well, if you forget about this poem on the exam NOW, I'll be mortally offended. It’s a play on the “examined” life. In this case, literally.

Well, if you forget about this poem on the exam NOW, I’ll be mortally offended.

]]> By: J. R. Ahern http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/2009/01/14/the-exams-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-1539 J. R. Ahern Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:21:06 +0000 http://www.pontificationadnauseam.com/?p=570#comment-1539 Very nice. As close as you stay to the original, you're never really bound by its topic in an awkward way. Some poor unfortunate sap who doesn't know Longfellow's poetry (or hasn't reviewed it recently, cough, cough) wouldn't be able to tell you had parodied, which is a good sign. But, enlighten me as to how Socrates relates to "I’m in Examined terror entwined." Very nice. As close as you stay to the original, you’re never really bound by its topic in an awkward way. Some poor unfortunate sap who doesn’t know Longfellow’s poetry (or hasn’t reviewed it recently, cough, cough) wouldn’t be able to tell you had parodied, which is a good sign. But, enlighten me as to how Socrates relates to “I’m in Examined terror entwined.”

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