TYI 6: favorite line of poetry/lyric

July 26, 2011 by kamaliaetalia

For your Tuesday blog reading enjoyment, another episode of Through Your Interface!

6. Favorite Line of Poetry/Lyric
Most of us have a favorite poet or song. Give us an image that you think represents your favorite line, or what line inspires you most. You should probably include said line and *maybe* give some explanation/reasoning behind it, unless you’re feeling overly ambiguous.

I put together some Screenshots + Lyrics for Anea’s meme a year or so ago. Although I used songs I like a lot, those weren’t my most favorite ever lyrics.

That would be these lines of relationship advice from the song “My White Knight” in my all-time favorite musical, The Music Man:
And I want him to be
More interested in me
Than he is in himself.
And more interested in us
Than in me!
Sadly, I had a much easier time thinking of counterexamples in Azeroth than I did examples of the intended sentiment, so I wasn’t able to come up with a good idea for a screenshot.

So I had to pick another of my favorite bits of the musical:

I’ve loved the following passage from Paradise Lost (Book II, lines 907-910) ever since my Physical Chemistry professor put it on an exam and asked us to write about how it describes the Second Law of Thermodynamics:

Unfortunately, I don’t remember P-Chem well enough to reproduce the explanation here (though I do still have the exam somewhere, buried in a box of undergraduate papers).