#and also every other line is self aggrandizing self congratulatory nonsense

[willowcrowned]

dark academia is when you want to punch the lights out of a professor

#this guy has been nonstop ragging on every other commentary on this poem for nine straight pages #and I can’t even enjoy it because his style is so unnecessarily dense complicated and prolix that it’s hurting my brain #and also every other line is self aggrandizing self congratulatory nonsense #but that I wouldn’t mind if he were clever in all his showing off #or if there was a point to him writing like this #(there isn’t) #(he’s literally just talking about the genre of talking about the genre of prospect poetry in the driest and least helpful way possible) #unfortunately I still have to read. oh god sixty eight more pages of this #because this was the only critical edition I could find #and it has commentaries on every single draft of this poem #which is a godsend #willow’s life #dark academia