About 25 young ne’erdowells are being forced to take court-ordered poetry classes after they threw a party in Robert Frost’s summer Vermont home, smashing windows and furniture and littering the property with plastic beer cups.
And yes, I came up with that headline all by myself.
From AP/AOL News:
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” [the teacher] thundered, reciting the opening line of the first poem, which he called symbolic of the need to make choices in life.
“This is where Frost is relevant. This is the irony of this whole thing. You come to a path in the woods where you can say, `Shall I go to this party and get drunk out of my mind?”‘ he said. “Everything in life is choices.”
Even the setting had parallels, he said: “Believe me, if you’re a teenager, you’re always in the damned woods. Literally, you’re in the woods - probably too much you’re in the woods. And metaphorically you’re in the woods, in your life. Look at you here, in court diversion! If that isn’t `in the woods,’ what the hell is `in the woods’? You’re in the woods!”
I created the “irony” tag specifically for this post. And it felt good.
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1 Asher Vijay // Jun 11, 2008 at 11:43 pm
BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Oh, I love the teacher!
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