I don't think we ever had to sing WHATFG (though we did get "Last night I dreamed the strangest dream", where I lost my Liberal Pacifist credentials for ever by thinking it sounded like a shame to burn all the pretty uniforms), but I have an abiding memory of an earnest teacher explaining that "To a Daisy" told us how it was Evil to pick flowers because it killed them and, by extension, the planet.
Even at the age of seven, I could see that (a) this was an interpretation of the poem that didn't have much to do with what the poet actually sang, and that (b) picking the odd daisy doesn't kill the plant, unless you actually rip it out by the roots and (c) the environment had bigger problems than my daisy chains.
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Re: Odd. I assumed, actually ...
Date: 2011-11-18 10:05 am (UTC)Even at the age of seven, I could see that (a) this was an interpretation of the poem that didn't have much to do with what the poet actually sang, and that (b) picking the odd daisy doesn't kill the plant, unless you actually rip it out by the roots and (c) the environment had bigger problems than my daisy chains.