FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for July 17, 2009

Poetic Justice (?) or Poetic License!

Has he ever heard of the Dead Poet’s society? He is about to be inducted by his sister.

…and where it falls, he does not care!

I love that poem “The Arrow and the Song”!

We had to memorize it in high school English, and I still recite it to myself sometimes.

LAME.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

by henry wadsworth longfellow

Oh, Jason. If you shot an arrow into Paige’s hair in yesterday’s or day before yesterday’s strip, and got chased by Paige, shouldn’t you just give up archery? Go with a more sophisticated and civilized sport. Like… oh, I don’t know… chess.

The problem with chess is that nobody can give him a challenge.

A more sophisticated and civilized sport, like rugby?

cage fighting

though i remember a bumper sticker that said, “Give Blood. Play Rugby.”

I sneezed a sneeze into the air. It fell to Earth I know not where. But hard and cold were the looks of those In whose vicinity I snoze.

– Author undetermined

Paige deserves everything she gets

Sternvogel, that poem you quoted was written by Merwyn Bogue AKA Ish Kabibble.

Still funny, though!

“For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song?”

Superman?

Librarian said, …that poem you quoted was written by Merwyn Bogue AKA Ish Kabibble.

Still funny, though!

And with better meter than Longfellow’s version.

4deerinmyyard: It really is forced, isn’t it? He didn’t seem to worry that much about meter. My favorite of his is The Chamber Over the Gate, which has the meter but sounds almost like doggerel. I guess it’s the thoughts in those poems that make them great, not the music.

I’m old-fashioned. I like his story-poems–Evangeline, Miles Standish, Paul Revere. (But not Hiawatha.) Also Arsenal at Springfield.

Jason really needs to stop bothering Paige before she really hurts him.

I shot an arrow in the air. It stuck. Darned smog.