I was talking to someone a while back about love and relationships and whoever it was said that there WERE no happy endings, that at the ends of fairy tales (the Disney, not German ones), they go off to live "happily ever after" and it doesn't talk about laundry and squabbles and paying bills, and that, at the ends of movies, it's the same thing ( Read more... )

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Gacked from yahtzee63, who gacked from marag, the poetry meme: "When you see this, post a bit of poetry in your own LJ."

I'm choosing to post a piece that is, for me, the quintessence of romance, of the happy ending. (ETA: Also? I am just in awe of a poem that has a perfect rhyme scheme that, due to the lack of end-stopped lines, one never hears...just ( Read more... )

This Robert Herrick poem is in our junior year British Lit book. The kids are typically horrified at how...filthy...it is. I find it amusing. The second one, a parody of the first poem, that was quoted to us by the guy who ran the conference I went to on Tuesday (which was fantastic). I don't know if it was written by one of his students or ( Read more... )