Should Heaven send me any son,
I hope he’s not like Tennyson.
I’d rather have him play a fiddle
Than rise and bow and speak an idyll.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Analysis, meaning and summary of Dorothy Parker's poem Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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this poem is very weird and i don’t understand it
I do not understand this poem.