#ElvesTeachLiterature

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hi! List five things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers <3

1. I've just set up my queue for a few days, as next week HubbyTMC will be going to New York. He's singing with choirs in a concert at Carneige Hall, and I'm over the moon about it. 2. I'm doing laundry in my new laundry machine...WHICH BALANCES ITSELF!! 3. I'm getting healthier than I have been in a long time because of a biologic(al warfare drug against my immune system). 4. I have good books to read as soon as I finish planning my curriculum for next year. 5. As I peruse my general news & education podcasts, I keep finding more inspiration for said curriculum. Thank you, @potential-fate for the message! I hope you have a blessed day!

[elfpuddle]

Me, too!

Monster of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: “Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.”

Monster of Frankenstein in pop culture: (unintelligible moaning)

[elfpuddle]

GENIUS!!

Poem: I lik the form

My naym is pome / and lo my form is fix’d Tho peepel say / that structure is a jail I am my best / when formats are not mix’d Wen poits play / subversions often fail

Stik out their toung / to rebel with no cause At ruls and norms / In ignorance they call: My words are free / Defying lit'rate laws To lik the forms / brings ruin on us all

A sonnet I / the noblest lit'rate verse And ruls me bind / to paths that Shakespeare paved Iambic fot / allusions well dispersed On my behind / I stately sit and wave

You think me tame /   Fenced-in and penned / bespelled I bide my time /   I twist the end / like hell

* “lik” should be read as “lick”, not “like”. In general, the initial section on each line should be read sort of phonetically.

Written for World Poetry Day, March 21, 2018. When I had this idea earlier today, I thought it was the worst, most faux hip pretentious idea for a shallow demonstration of empty wordsmithing skill in poetry ever. So I had to try to write it. I mean, how often do you get to fuse the iambic dimeter of bredlik - one of the newest and most exciting verse forms - with the stately iambic pentameter of the classic sonnet?

[elfpuddle]

Banned doesn’t mean what you think it does.

banning books is bad unless i hate the author

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Shakespeare and I are going to go see “Ran” on the big screen— I think he’d love Japanese adaptions of his works!

Question: If you could show a dead author one piece of media (book, movie, tv show, whatever) that was created after their death, which one would it be?

Right now, my top choice is to show G.K. Chesterton It's a Wonderful Life.

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I’ve not seen any of Once Upon a Time, so I might be missing something. How is the Barrie or Disney Peter Pan a Villain?

Once Upon A Time was absolutely correct in that Peter Pan is a Villain and Captain Hook is Sexy

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I'm in this photo and I don't like it.

Cartoon by Ellis Rosen