The Lives and Times of John Keats,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, and
George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron
Byron and Shelley and Keats
Were a trio of Lyrical treats.
The forehead of Shelley was cluttered with curls,
And Keats never was a descendant of earls,
And Byron walked out with a number of girls,
But it didn't impair the poetical feats
Of Byron and Shelley,
Of Byron and Shelley,
Of Byron and Shelley and Keats.
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I think this is called damning with faint praise!!
Parker manages to dismiss the poets with a single inconsequential fact about each without mentioning any of their so called feats. -
I'm fairly certain that "Byron and Shelley and Keats" is the first line of the second stanza and if not, it should be. I can provide a link if you like.
http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6640&poem=50717 -
now that i look at the poem again, i notice that dorothy keeps repeating the names over and over again, making the first part of the poem fairly boring, whereas the second part is made very catchy and interesting by creating rhymes and a sing-songish pattern like von mentioned.
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I like the last part of the poem the best. however, i feel that the first part is a sort an introduction, being important to the context of the poem. couldn't have done any better on such a subject. (=
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I didn't really care for the beginning. It just doesn't mesh well tone-ically to me. I don't know, it could just be me ..
I did like the second part and as von mentions it is sing-songy. I am not going to say it's a great piece, I sort of like the title more so than I like the piece. But it has a nice structure to it. But I can't say it's great and that I like it. No, I can't say that.
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More of a ditty rather than poem - but the little sing-song effect at the end finishes it off brilliantly.
~Von~ -
"The forehead of Shelley was cluttered with curls,
And Keats never was a descendant of earls,
And Byron walked out with a number of girls,"
Woman!- if you are a woman, you feminist who denies the very mold you were born into- Byron certainly wouldn't have walked out with you. The title of this poem is very accurate.
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