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Dela Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
What is box-ticking syllabus?
Fifty years ago Frank O’Hara prophetically observed, “Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with dripping (tears).” These poets still find their way onto a box-ticking syllabus.
My questions to the above sentences are:
1, with dripping is used to described the kids or the patatoes?
2, When the author said that too many poets act like a middle-aged mother, does he complain that the poets write too many poems which can hardly be digested by the readers?
3, What kind of syllabus is box-ticking one?
My questions to the above sentences are:
1, with dripping is used to described the kids or the patatoes?
2, When the author said that too many poets act like a middle-aged mother, does he complain that the poets write too many poems which can hardly be digested by the readers?
3, What kind of syllabus is box-ticking one?
Top answer
1, w ith dripping is used to described the kids or the patatoes? Not sure about dripping here, I haven't heard this myself before - if it were 'dressing' then it would make more sense... Having said that, it could mean dripping water from the potato because it wasn't cooked or taken from the boiling water properly and so water is on the plate - not very nice and suggests the cook doesn't take care (similarly the compared poets don't either)!
- 1, w ith dripping is used to described the kids or the patatoes?
- Not sure about dripping here, I haven't heard this myself before - if it were 'dressing' then it would make more sense...
- Having said that, it could mean dripping water from the potato because it wasn't cooked or taken from the boiling water properly and so water is on the plate - not very nice and suggests the cook doesn't take care (similarly the compared poets don't either)!
- PS could also be dripping with butter - either way it's not necessarily nice.
- 2, When the author said that too many poets act like a middle-aged mother, does he complain that the poets write too many poems which can hardly be digested by the readers?
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1, with dripping is used to described the kids or the patatoes?
Not sure about dripping here, I haven't heard this myself before - if it were 'dressing' then it would make more sense...
Having said that, it could mean dripping water from the potato because it wasn't cooked or taken from the boiling water properly and so water is on the plate - not very nice and suggests the cook doe
Not sure about dripping here, I haven't heard this myself before - if it were 'dressing' then it would make more sense...
Having said that, it could mean dripping water from the potato because it wasn't cooked or taken from the boiling water properly and so water is on the plate - not very nice and suggests the cook doe
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