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MISTER POETICAL

Think poets know more than you? Don't be a sucker.

Mister Poetical (pictured here) has read probably a thousand poems—and that’s just this morning! But as any true poet, or “barista,” will tell you, it’s not enough to just read a poem, you have to re-read it again and again until you eventually admit that the poet wins, you don’t know what is supposed to be going on here. Well, Mister Poetical bows to no man, woman, or poet.
Don’t be bullied by poets. . . join Mister Poetical and his Gigantic Brain ™ in understanding and mocking the greatest literary giants who have ever jotted down a few lines and then gone back to bed for the rest of the week exhausted.

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IRONIC TWIST

O Captain! My Captain!


by Walt Whitman


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THE HARDY BOY AND THE CASE OF THE GENUFLECTING  LIVESTOCK

The Oxen


by Thomas Hardy


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GO AHEAD, LAUGH IT UP, FUNNY BOY

Ode On Melancholy

by John Keats


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IF YOU KNEW POETRY, YOU WOULDN’T THINK IT’S ABOUT A HORSE

I Like to See It Lap the Miles

by Emily Dickinson


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AT LEAST WE DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MONEY

Richard Cory

by Edwin Arlington Robinson

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THE SAP IS RUNNING

Trees


by Joyce Kilmer


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HOW CAN SHE SEE HIS GRAY HAIRS UNDER THAT WIG?

To A Gentlewoman Objecting to Him His Gray Hairs

by Robert Herrick


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DENSE

Fog

by Carl Sandburg


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BRING YOUR SUNSCREEN. . . YOU MAY WANT TO DRINK IT

Dover Beach

By Matthew Arnold


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