A Learner's Complaint

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A Learner's Complaint
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For April Chess and Fire Shantih sing

The Ancient Captains dead by Water sway

And Paradise is lost like hope in spring

Shall I compare it to an April's Day

Where little Boys and little Girls are lost

November finds the Boy a bitter Man

Complaining nagging pitying the cost

Of knowing not how his Career began

The Albatross was never on his Side

The Tyger's Flames put out but long ago

Yet Satan never in Defeat He cried

If Winston Smith had really loved Big Bro


So Shakespeare Milton Eliot Coleridge Blake 2
And Everything they stand for is just fake


Attempts at understanding all must fail

The Libraries these days too early close

The Mind of this is shocked becoming frail

And tied in self-made Chains all Reason goes

To Hell or Heaven just as it may please

Thus leaving us to face Reality

With Eyes displaying openly Disease

Insane and crazy mad Divinity

Examination Day too soon arrives

To all that suffer deeply from this Pain

That surely into Madness fast us drives

And any Hope for Help is hoped in vain

For Shakespeare Milton Eliot Coleridge Blake
And Everything they stand for is just fake

1 A Shakespearian Sonnett that reflects some of the effects of spending days and nights in libraries in preparation for examinations in English and American Literature. The title, of course, reminds us of Shakespeare's 'A Lover's Complaint'. 2 More authors than these may have been influences on the writer of this Sonnett. However, the works of these have found their proper expression in the poem.

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