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...Valentine's Day approaches, what kind of love poems are people looking for? If we look at the top love-poem searches, they range from queries for the "best love poem" to the lovelorn request for "sad love poems" and the age-specific "teenage love poems...
Sifting through the list of 700-plus terms that contain "love poems" reveals some interesting trends. As we see with term "teenage love poem," above, lack of originality begins early, with teens appearing to be the prime culprits in word-stealing (though a less cynical man might hope that literary-minded young lovers just want to quote Elizabeth Barrett Browning to their sweethearts). Other teen love poem searches include: "love poems for MySpace," and "emo love poems" (referring to "emotional hardcore," a variant of punk rock), like these lines in the aptly named poem "ugh" submitted by a user...
...purchased Valentine's flowers, a Valentine's card, maybe even a Valentine's gift. But let's face it, all this looming recession fear is forcing us to cut costs where we can. One of the most dominant trends throughout the list of top love-poem searches is thriftiness, with searches for "free love poems," "cheap love poems," or "free romantic love poems." Aren't "free" and "romantic" mutually exclusive...
...complex production by the Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater, featuring both masked and unmasked actors, elaborate props, and the occasional puppet. It’s a modern adaptation of Dante’s “The Divine Comedy,” a medieval epic poem that detailed the author’s view of the Christian afterlife.“The Divine Reality Comedy” is perhaps best described as a proselytizing Polyphonic Spree meets political theater. As intriguing as that sounds, the production was an interminable hour and a half of paper-thin commentary...
...skirl o' the bagpipes, even more dramatic by virtue of being played indoors, accompanies the "great chieftain o' the puddin-race" born aloft to the table by a chef. Then, a wild-eyed Scotsman recites Robert Burns' poem Address To a Haggis, and upon reaching the line, "An' cut ye up wi' ready sleight," he plunges a dagger into the taut sheep's stomach amid cheers from the diners. In a ritual repeated by Scots across the globe on Burns Night, January 25, the birthday in 1759 of their most cherished poet, the attack on the main course continues...