home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.arts.poetry.comments      Feedback on eachothers poetry apparently      45,517 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 43,861 of 45,517   
   Will Dockery to All   
   Re: "Metamorphesis"-Ovid   
   20 Dec 25 17:19:54   
   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Cujo DeSockpuppet  posted:   
   > mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) wrote in   
   > news:K2mdnaO-rLZfT9v0nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@giganews.com:   
   > >> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >   
   >> And, as mentioned earlier, one of the greatest Rolling Stones albums,   
   > >> released in the Summer of 1975 at the height of my Stones fandom, was   
   > >> "Metamorphosis":   
   > >>   
   > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis_(Rolling_Stones_album)   
   > >>   
   > >> So I can see how the confusion comes in, with so many relatively   
   > >> recent works using that spelling for a title.   
   >   
   > > One metamorphosis, two metamorphoses.   
   > >   
   > > Ovid wrote about numerous metamorphoses, hence the plural form.   
   >   
   > If you think this is bad, you ought to see his "poetry".   
      
   At least, unlike you, I'm not afraid to post my poetry here on the newsgroup,   
   CujoDeSockpuppet.   
      
   And so it goes.   
      
   --   
   Poetry and songs of Will Dockery:   
   https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca