Help me understand older English

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[jaF0]

Today's homework is John Donne's "The Flea".

(My seventh-grade teacher must have been at least seventy, and she made that poem sexy as hell. I think she was born to teach.)

Wasn't there a 70s or 80s porn or soft porn flick called 'The Flea'?

 

[jaF0]

And where the hell is Ogg on an old English thread?

 

[jaF0]

Wasn't there a 70s or 80s porn or soft porn flick called 'The Flea'?

OK, I was close:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_a_Flea

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122972/

 

[pplwatching]

I had to drink an awful lot of champagne to get through that night.

Wow. Expensive date.

 

[pplwatching]

OK, I was close:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_a_Flea

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122972/

Always impressed to meet someone who has a catalog of porn titles in their head. *tips hat*

 

[Miles Long]

It wasn’t a date but a group of friends. I don’t think I’ve ever had a man pay for my expensive tastes in bubbles let alone anything else.

I’d be more surprised if a man paid for you to listen to open mic poetry.

 

[pplwatching]

It wasn’t a date but a group of friends. I don’t think I’ve ever had a man pay for my expensive tastes in bubbles let alone anything else.

On principle or by happenstance? Serious question.

 

[Emerson40]

It wasn’t a date but a group of friends. I don’t think I’ve ever had a man pay for my expensive tastes in bubbles let alone anything else.

I just knew you were a Top Shelf plonk kinda gal.

You just need to treat yourself to a better breed of poet.

 

[Miles Long]

I think the next Litogether in Chicago needs to involve some champagne (We'll go to Pops, a champagne bar in River North) and then some open mic poetry!

 

[pplwatching]

I think the next Litogether in Chicago needs to involve some champagne (We'll go to Pops, a champagne bar in River North) and then some open mic poetry!

I'd come, but all I know is dirty limerics :-/

 

[pplwatching]

My wife is very similar in that she never expected me to pay, but didn't object that I wanted to. Very simple needs and tastes, except in rice cookers. Hasn't gotten smashed ever in the 24ish years that I've known her but we enjoy libations.

Anyway, was curious and thanks for answering

 

[Miles Long]

Apparently so!



Show us what you’ve got. Poetry, Miles, do your pants back up.

Too bad you're not on Fet anymore or you could read it.

 

[Miles Long]

Well I would be if I could get back into my fucking account.

#neverforget

 

[Saucyminx]

OK, I was close:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_a_Flea

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122972/

You beat me to it! I have a paperback copy of The Autobiography of a Flea and other Tart Tales by Anonymous around here somewhere. I have a bit of a thing for Victorian erotica. Simply fucking filthy.

Too bad you're not on Fet anymore or you could read it.

So wait, Miles has poetry on Fet??? Or just no pants. I'm confused. Again.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I think we’re going to need to hear that read to find the sexy as hell.

(Subtle???)

*reads in a sexy voice which is DEFINITELY my own and certainly not a recording of Alan Rickman and/or Judi Dench*

 

[Bramblethorn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP06F0yynic

Tomorrow I shall read from Keats' masterpiece, "Thirty Points To Slytherin".

 

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[Bramblethorn]

One of my favourites:

Westron wind, when wilt thou blow
The small rain down can raine
Christ, if my love were in my arms
And I in my bed again!

It's anonymous; it first appears in writing in a songbook from about 1530, but might be hundreds of years older than that. The significance of the second line isn't totally clear, but one explanation I've heard is that the writer was a soldier, waiting for a rainy season before he could return home. "I don't want to be here, I wish I was home with my love."

Sometimes it feels like magic to me. The author's been dead for the best part of a millennium, name lost to history, the world changed unimaginably. And yet that fragment of their longing still survives and still resonates, as if a little piece of the author's psyche escaped death.

A lot of poetry does nothing for me, but that one does.

 

[Saucyminx]

^... so romantic

Who votes for Bramble to do a reading of that for us so we can truly appreciate it? *raises hand*

(And never heard your voice but always trust Rainy's taste in male voices, as it is very similar to my own.)

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'm shy about my voice, but give me a moment to figure out the technology and I'll see what I can do...

 

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[Saucyminx]

Excuse me a moment.

Jesus.

*nods*. Quite swoon-worthy.

Can't wait to hear Bramblethorns!

Seconded!

 

[Bramblethorn]

Be gentle, it's my first time (voice recording). I got a friend to do a reading too, so you can choose whichever you like better

https://vocaroo.com/i/s0D2bLrzrHwk
https://vocaroo.com/i/s1s88UyIqAk2

 

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