Tuesday, April 13, 2010

The Poet, The Oyster, And Sensitive Plant Comments

Rating: 4.7

An Oyster, cast upon the shore,
Was heard, though never heard before,
Complaining in a speech well worded,
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William Cowper
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Susan Williams 29 November 2015

It has been a few years since I was in college but if memory serves me right this clever poem used a bit of humor in fable form to discuss the theories of Shelley and Darwin about nature.

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