@chaven@SketchesbyBoze Exactly! They also have their education to fall back on. They might have to become governesses, but they are not going to starve.
@chenchenwrites Also, it is hyperbole when the speaker says “I tell them for the seventeenth time/
(the fourth in writing), that I am gay” or has the speaker literally been keeping track?
@chenchenwrites I teach the poem every year in my freshman (high school) intro to poetry course and I use it to talk about allusion/intertextuality. Home Alone is something all my students (except for one in every class) are familiar with, even in here Finland.