Originally posted by zz man
Tennyson was pretty much senile by the time someone picked up the ball and ran....from which Gridiron came....so your Tennyson reference really doesnt mount to much....I penned a little ditty that took all of 20 seconds...Indeed if I wanted to illustrate Tennysons poetic prowess I would probably have chosen The Kraken in its oddly arranged sonnet form and biblical references ...But I guess your 3rd grade reading skills arent up to that yet !!...Maybe its time to read some Janet and John books or maybe a good book of Irish Limericks.....That'll make you titter Actually a sonnet is 14 lines and the Kracken has 15 so it is not, in fact, a sonnet, although obviously a buffoon like yourself can easily not know that. Since you consider its rhyme scheme odd it's clear you're not familiar with the Italian tradition so it's understandable that you don't know what Petrarch defined as a sonnet. I guess you could say the poem has biblical references if by biblical references you mean Tennyson had, like everyone else of his age, read Paradise Lost and he borrows (copies) from Milton's Leviathan and since Milton's Leviathan was referencing biblical end of the world scenarios then Tennyson makes the same connections. Not sure I'd call that a Biblical reference so much as a Milton reference, but I guess if some fool like yourself was completely ignorant of Paradise Lost he might believe that Tennyson came up with the idea from Biblical references.
Most importantly though, you clearly have no understanding of the meaning of these poems or you would never have responded with the Kracken. My choice was a poem about a horrible military blunder which symbolizes the horrible build blunders your team made in order to make a meaningless charge through the minor leagues. Your response of the Kracken still symbolizes that your team is destined to be wiped out. The obvious pivot of Tennyson poems that could represent your team is for you to come back with Ulysses, which is a far better poem than the Kracken anyway. Your failure to pick such an obvious correct response jyst confirms that you're for lack of a better word ... stupid. Thanks for demonstrating it again though, in case any of us still had any doubts!