#disputants

disputants Übersetzung disputants Deutsch

disputants

The words of the American humorist poets of the nineteenth century are often confusing, as they are liable to use such terms as ‘oft,’ which is a nineteenth-century abbreviation for ‘often’; ‘disputants,’ which refers to people who are arguing; ‘ween,’ which means ‘think’; and ‘rail on,’ which means to bicker for hours on end, the way you do with a family member who is particularly bossy. Such poets might use the word ‘prate,’ which means ‘chatter,’ and they might spend an entire stanza discussing ‘theologic wars,’ a term which refers to arguing over what different people believe, the way you might also do with a family member who is particularly bossy. Even the Baudelaires, who’d had the works of American humorist poets of the nineteenth century recited to them many times over their childhood, had trouble understanding everything in the stanza, which simply made the point that all of the blind men in the poem were arguing pointlessly. But Violet, Klaus, and Sunny did not need to know exactly what the stanza meant. They only needed to know who wrote it. ‘John Godfrey Saxe,’ said Sunny with a smile.