joanna bujes wrote:
> Oooh. Good one, thanks. I always thought Matthew
> Arnold was a weenie.
But also, neither the girl nor the narrator appear very savory in the poem. And so the gallows humor, parodic "criticism of life." It's interesting how Hecht is implicated in the narrator's voice.
Alec
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