SLSL "TSR" - frogs, Levine, Buttercup

[William Zantzinger]

--- Dave Meury <dmeury at lioninc.com> wrote:
> Doug wrote:
> >Speaking of idiosyncratic reader-response
> intepretations forcing the
> text to fit a preconceived notion, reading a chorus
> of live frogs in the
> midst of blooming nature as symbolizing "death"
> seems a gloomy stretch,
> even by mid-20th-century existential standards.
> 
> 
> But frogs are noted for their . . . croaking.

Ha! Ha! 

But Doug, 


How the Hell does one stretch it to Charon's ferryboat
in The Frogs of Aristophones? 

In that play, he brood of frogs of birth and death
sing from the depths of their croaking chorus throat
to the rowers coveyed to Hades on  Charon's ferry
boat. 


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