Best Aristophanes Poems

...Unquotable quotes: Teachers – XXI

The pupil, the ***** and the walnut tree, the more the teacher beats them, the better they be.
In the old days, teachers were born to the métier like poets; t......

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...Be born (or get born if you prefer)
If you are a woman – Give birth
Remember your name when in a foreign land
(If you don't have one make one up)
Breathe only air and at the appropriate time
Dri......

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...What killed Socrates.
a weed or Aristophanes?
What caused an end so dire?
The law or just satire?
The cries of ignorant crowds.
or something in 'The Clouds'?......

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...
Thoughts of a “Mid-Dot : (•)”

A couple of centuries back, I was recognized,
marked as mid-dot ; all were mesmerized.
I was most required for all. I was utilized
in literature exten......

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...Aristophanes, my favourite Attic writer, 
When he had pen in hand, was a fighter
Politics and poetics: his precious topics
I know not politics, he loved but poetics

Aristophanes, my favourite A......

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...Aeschylus: "Agamemnon"

A man in exile
Feeds himself on barren hope
Yields to fate in time

Aeschylus: "Prometheus Unbound"

Life's hard lesson
Wrong is shameful in the old
Time instructs u......

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...tamed tragedy wept
whooshing wail crept
vying voluptuous trait
callous comedy create
mystic metamorphoses moaned
felon form cloned

like taunted torrent
rustic waves rent
hoisted horizon etc......

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