Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The Frog And The Nightingale Comments

Rating: 4.2

Once upon a time a frog
Croaked away in Bingle Bog
Every night from dusk to dawn
He croaked awn and awn and awn
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Vikram Seth
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Ruth Walters 28 March 2024

This is a story poem! Wow it is so long.......

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Bri Edwards 28 March 2024

Now I give 5 stars; I'd give 10 if I could. I have a poem about a frog in a bog, and it speaks of interspecies offspring: 'frumans' of course! !

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Bri Edwards 28 March 2024

It appears that I commented (very briefly, surprisingly) in 2022. I remember with relish this poem, then and now, though I did not recall 'her' death. : ((

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Bri Edwards 28 March 2024

(cont.) **** po·et·ic li·cense noun the freedom to depart from the facts of a matter or from the conventional rules of language when speaking or writing in order to create an effect.'

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Bri Edwards 28 March 2024

stanza 1: I believe 'minstrelled' is a word 'made up' by the poet [[ using 'poetic license' **** ]], meaning 'sang'. (cont.)

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Sanket Badoliya 31 October 2022

It was a wonderful experience, reading this poem. A lyrical art pompous with rhymes and rhythms...and lessons learnt too are far not short.

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ur mom 15 August 2022

jhakas. bahut acche. damba bafoon yallah habibi teri bibi sabki bibi swaha

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ur mom 15 August 2022

this poem is jhakas. bahut accha. damba bafoon.

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Drish Punjabi 15 August 2022

so long g

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Devansh Sharma 15 August 2022

Gud buka

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theabbie 13 July 2022

Awesome and Nostalgic

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erhf9ehu9uhg 17 February 2022

FUCK FUCK MOTHER FUCKER BULLSHIT

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Rainbow 123 17 February 2022

The is a very nice poem but at the same to also dum

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Bri Edwards 23 January 2022

I think last word of stanza one should be 'light'. ;) And stanza 2, line 3: 'frog's', not frogs. ;) I'll read onward. bri

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Vineeta 07 December 2021

I read this poem when i was in class 10 in 1997....since then i have not forgotten it....i still feel the pain of the nightingale..... Very heart touching poem....worth reading

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Ruksana banu 05 June 2020

Hmmmm nice and bad also

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blah blaj 26 April 2020

hmmmm hmm hmm its good and bad

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desert 06 April 2020

very long poem and very hard learning this poem in english regards, desert

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Hobson.Angelia 06 February 2020

9770 N Elm Cir

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The following poem is an allegory which means it has a deeper level of influence and deeper meaning to it. Over here the meaning is how evil wins over innocence and how a person gets flattered. hope its u

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