Policy Model
Policy ModelA boatman with goose, fox and sack of cornCame down to the river and little boatThat had countless rowers and others borneOn countless trips without event of note.You know the boat; it...
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Damn you, don -- I've wanted to construct something of this sort with the old fox, corn, chicken scenario for years, & I've never gotten it down the way I'd like. Now, of course, it would be...
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Mike:(1) In my view, the literary uses (even within the realm of sonnet) for the boat, fox, goose and sack of corn have not been exhausted, and I would urge that you and the many, many other readers...
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This puzzles me. Do we mourn the goose that has possibly been eaten by the fox? I admit that this goose-chicken-fox-wife-God-bread-corn scenario (?) is new to me. Can somebody please explain what this...
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"There is a man who has a sack of corn, a goose and a fox. He comes to a river where he found a small boatwhich was only big enough to hold himself and one other thing. He has to get everything across...
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Hi,This sonnet is so irritatingly clever that it seems churlish to pick at it.My only nit-picking gripe is that 'God and his corn' in L13 kind of reads as if the corn is God's rather than the...
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Donives,Hmm. I think I've missed a central point here. I don't understand the last two lines:"Next: Our boatman, his wife, God and his cornArrive at the river; which do we mourn?"Part of my problem...
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Kristi:I suppose the trouble with the word, God, is that it causes people to assume that a "grand point" is intended. My small point targetted "policy models".
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