LIT LECTURE: FUN, LAFFTER, AND HAPPY TAIMEZ~~

Whitby: So, you lot- what's a "caricature"?

Class: *silence*

Whitby: What's a "caricature of old age"?? *exasperation*

*jabs at own chest viciously* ...You don't have to look very far!!

Whitby: So what has the old man got?

Class: *silence*

Whitby: *clue* It's what you all STILL HAVE.

Class: *pondersome silence*

Whitby: ...So? What is it? The I-word!

*darkly, to self* ...You won't take very long to lose it; believe me.

Carol: ...Innocence?

Whitby: *headdesk*

Whitby, pained: Idealism. It's idealism, you eejits.

Whitby: According to this poem, our poet wants to break free of social convention. But what does society say to old people?

"...You! Sit there! Vegetate! You. Will. Be. A. Boring! Old! Fart!"

Whitby: Orl right now. What's this poem about..?

Class: *silence*

Whitby: Come ON! I know some of you know this.

Class: *silence*

Whitby: Oh, come ON. I KNOW some of you are thinking of it and it's the answer...!

Class: *silence*

Cara, tentatively: ...Sex?

** The poem turned out to about the "transcendental duality of soul and body in human nature". FML.