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I had great fun writing these before, and really appreciated the comments people left. I've spent a bit less time constructing these, but... well, I had fun! I hope to make this a bit of a series. Let me know if you have any ideas for others, or authors you'd like to see...
What the dickens?
Oh Charles, you saw
The humble poor
In such disarming detail -
But somehow missed
In all of this
A single real female.
Mary, Mary
For dangerous and wild men you had a predilection.
You may have written Frankenstein, but - truth's stranger than fiction.
Dear Aunt Jane
"Sweet, ineffectual Jane, the dear!"
Of all misreadings, wrongest.
Her barbs will last two hundred years;
Her laughs, both loud and longest.
DostoyWHEVsky*
If reading should be nourishment,
Your book's not worth our time:
An awful lot of punishment
And hardly any crime.
*I have to admit that I've never read it...
Well done! The Dickens one made me laugh out loud.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Claire :)
DeleteYou captured Dickens!! And Dear Aunt Jane - she definitely will definitely get the last laugh :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Samara! I do love Dickens, but... yes, a definite hubris.
DeleteBravo! Bravo! A nice quartet. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Susan!
DeleteSnort. Down my nose. While drinking chamomile tea. That, dear Simon, is what your hilarious rhymes make me do!
ReplyDeleteDo carry on, however. I love them, and am most willing to suffer such an indignity in exchange :)
Jane
Haha! Sorry, Jane... you'll have to be careful when you drink hot beverages around blogs ;)
DeleteYour wonderful poems could be a round for the Lit Quiz next year!? ;)
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Deletethanks for your comments.I really like it.
Deletenon fiction publicist
There's an idea!
DeleteI think the Dostoyevsky is my favourite. I have read 'Crime and Punishment' and did indeed find it rather punishing. Those who feel the same might enjoy this short Radio 4 item about tedious books:
ReplyDeletehttp://audioboo.fm/boos/1342030-is-life-too-short-to-read-tedious-books
Thanks David! - my book group is reading Crime and Punishment this month, but I don't think I'll have time - and I can't say its reputation makes me very keen to try!
DeleteAll very clever, Simon! I chuckled aloud at all of them.
ReplyDeleteThat's lovely to hear, thank you Debbie!
DeleteI love the Dickens one. It's so true! And sorry but I couldn't resist this:
ReplyDeleteStuck in a book Simon
lit a light for us to shine on
books from dim and distant past
and bring them home.
Even more: he wrote a rhyme on
those he loved the best and last.
Oh, lovely, Vanessa - thank you so much! Another poem for me, after Agnieszka wrote one - I'm so flattered :)
DeleteNicely done! I just finished Great Expectations yesterday, so I could relate to your Dickens poem. Mary, Mary is my favorite.
ReplyDeleteI do adore Great Expectations, but - well, oh Charles!
DeleteAnd the more I read about Mary Shelley, the tamer I think Frankenstein is in comparison...
You have a talent! The dickens made me snort too!
ReplyDeleteThat's lovely of you to say, Erica!
DeleteThese are hilarious! I especially loved the Dostoyevsky and the Dickens ones, they are great! Thanks for sharing them :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Amanda, that's lovely of you!
DeleteThis second series is just a lovely as the first one :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Miguel :)
DeleteI love these, Simon. You should definitely do this more often. Mary, Mary is my favourite; “truth’s stranger than fiction”- absolutely brilliantly written.
ReplyDeleteI like the Dostoyevsky one as well although I don’t agree with it; I actually quite enjoyed “Crime and Punishment”.
That's lovely to hear, Agnieszka, thank you :)
DeleteLove the poems, you are so clever. The Dickens really made me laugh loud (I think the familiarity with the material helps).
ReplyDeleteAw, thanks Ruthiella!
DeleteAnd much as I love Dickens, the common criticism is true, isn't?