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Helmut Jasper - 19 Jul 2009 19:05 GMT

Does anybody know the meaning of 'wood-thing' in the poem Love Song by
Dorothy Parker?

...
My love, he's mad, and my love, he's fleet,
And a wild young wood-thing bore him!
...

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1554.html

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Helmut

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Molly Mockford - 19 Jul 2009 19:43 GMT

At 20:05:15 on Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Helmut Jasper
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>Does anybody know the meaning of 'wood-thing' in the poem Love Song by
>Dorothy Parker?

I'd have thought it probably referred to a dryad.

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John Hall - 19 Jul 2009 21:27 GMT

>At 20:05:15 on Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Helmut Jasper
><helmutjasper@hotmail.com> wrote in <7ch5loF25js31U1@mid.individual.net
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>I'd have thought it probably referred to a dryad.

Me too.

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David - 19 Jul 2009 22:23 GMT

> At 20:05:15 on Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Helmut Jasper
> <helmutjasper@hotmail.com> wrote in
> <7ch5loF25js31U1@mid.individual.net>:

> >Does anybody know the meaning of 'wood-thing' in the poem Love Song
> >by Dorothy Parker?

> I'd have thought it probably referred to a dryad.

She was only the woodman's daughter but she had a dry advice...

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Paul - 01 Aug 2009 14:56 GMT

> In article <3rJRhE2Fl2YKF...@molly.mockford>, Molly Mockford
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> David - toro-danyo atcost uku fullstop co fullstop ukhttp://www.toro-danyo.uku.co.uk/

David, what's that Sanskrit sounding last line in your post?

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Molly Mockford - 01 Aug 2009 16:23 GMT

At 06:56:34 on Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Paul <paulmathewmac@gmail.com> wrote in
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>> Om Namah Shivaya

>David, what's that Sanskrit sounding last line in your post?

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Namah_Shivaya> might help.

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