http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/01/wednesday-shout-out-18/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:24:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/01/wednesday-shout-out-18/#comment-2309 Watt Evers Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:19:14 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=625#comment-2309 "Cast into the storehouse of memory, the high school prom will be revisited by some as a highlight of their youth; others will lessen its importance as they participate in more meaningful ceremonies." Yeah, and still others won't have to worry about it at all since they never participated in the whole ridiculous spectacle in the first place. If the prom is a "rite of passage" in American culture, we really are in trouble. (Actually, the only "clear transition from childhood to adulthood" is the achievement of legal drinking age. Just goes to show, adulthood is no great achievement.) “Cast into the storehouse of memory, the high school prom will be revisited by some as a highlight of their youth; others will lessen its importance as they participate in more meaningful ceremonies.”
Yeah, and still others won’t have to worry about it at all since they never participated in the whole ridiculous spectacle in the first place. If the prom is a “rite of passage” in American culture, we really are in trouble.
(Actually, the only “clear transition from childhood to adulthood” is the achievement of legal drinking age. Just goes to show, adulthood is no great achievement.)

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