England is all atwitter over the news that students were asked to compare Sir Walter Raleigh's poem "As You Came from the Holy Land" to the lyrics of "Love is a Losing Game" by Amy Winehouse in a final exam at Cambridge University last week. Reaction so far ranges from
snooty disdain to
prolix vitriol. But has anyone yet mustered the blogging gusto to actually attempt this controversial lit crit stunt? As the girl who once interpreted the line in Rubén Darío's "
Yo persigo una forma" about the "impossible embrace of Venus de Milo" (a figurative statement about the impossibility of achieving true beauty) as a hilarious wisecrack about the armless nature of the statue, I feel more than qualified to be the first to perform this task.
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