For the 3 (or is it 4? or 7??) teachers on my Flist

[dwenius]

Next year, have your students compare and contrast the lyrics to "Synchronicity II" by The Police with the poem "The Fall of Rome" by W.H. Auden. There's more going on there than you might at first think; Sting may be a wanksta for the canon, but every now and then he pulls off something genuinely clever.

The bright ones should have a lot of fun, the dim ones get a chance to snicker and say "crotch" and "prostitutes." So everyone wins.

Comments

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I always knew there was something unusual about "Synchronicity II" that made it stand out from the rest of the work by Sting and The Police. And now I know where that verse [which keeps sycnhronicitically dogging me] about "vast herds of reindeer" moving across miles and miles of golden moss, "silently and very fast," comes from.

Don't forget that the ones part way between the bright and the dim will be able to write "I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK" on their standardized test forms.