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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

This. Is. A. Load. Of. Crap

Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

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4.8815 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

This is a load of crap, I thought, in the rain.

0:06.5

It's one more thing.

0:08.5

Armstrong and Getty.

0:10.0

One more thing.

0:14.0

So I've been on this poetry kick for like an entire 10 days.

0:19.8

And we talked about a particular poem yesterday and I wanted to get into the dissecting it,

0:25.6

reading a little of the dissection of this poem by a smarty pants, because I think you'll find

0:30.2

this pretty entertaining.

0:31.3

Okay.

0:31.7

So I'll read the poem again, because it's very short.

0:34.5

It's one of the most famous poems in the history of the English language.

0:39.1

I'll be damned.

0:39.7

It was written in the 1920s, I think, but I just had Googled, because like I said, I'm into poetry right now, just Googled famous poems.

0:46.9

And this is the most famous poem of the last, I think, 25 years it's been in more poetry anthologies than any other in the last quarter century.

0:55.8

And it's all about the pauses, right?

0:57.2

Their entire college class has written about the red wheelbarrow.

1:01.9

This is a very short poem.

1:06.4

A red wheelbarrow glazed with rain water

1:11.3

beside the white chickens.

1:14.5

That's the whole thing.

1:17.3

Yeah.

1:17.9

One of the greatest poems ever written.

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