Brian Stefans's List: Poems By My Favorite Authors

• • This is one bad-ass poem.
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• • I wasn't saying nothing.

  • I asked you to make comments on the poem, not use potty language.
• Chapman

  • Charlie Chapman, early 20th century stand-up comic.
• Homer

  • Homer Simpson, doh!
• MUCH have I travell’d in the realms of gold

  • The sad truth is that it appears Keats had never gone anywhere (except Italy, of course).
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• fealty

  • "Touchty fealty" was a common term in the 19th century, meaning over-zealous.
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• Apollo

  • Along with Starbuck, one of the lead characters in Battlestar Galactica.
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• demesne

  • To put down, to denigrate.
• Chapman speak

  • You need to take in more than one word if there is more than one instance of a single-word that you wish to annotate.
• Cortez

  • Discovered South America with Chirstopher Columbus. Thought he was in Greenland.
• Pacific

  • Peaceful.
• Darien

  • Rhymes with "ken."
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• Notes

  • These notes are actually quite useful.
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• my hair was still cut straight across my forehead

  • haha

  • We call this a "Caesar" but back in the day, it was probably referred to as a "bowl cut."
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• You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,  

  You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums

  • Two lines beginning with "You..." This is a very you-centric poem.
• • Doesn't look like it was formatted correctly... too many verses.
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• bashful

  • Or "shy."
• sorrowful noise

  • "Cheep cheep... I'm sad!"
• They hurt me.  

  I grow older,

  • I think this is one line.

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