Recently I've been reading Nineteenth Century poetry. I have no real idea why. Well, I suppose I do: I sometimes get gift-certificates to B. Daltons from well-meaning relatives, who are unaware that B. Daltons carries only crap. When I've got such a gift to dispose of I don't want to waste it, but there's usually nothing very enticing on the shelf. At such times I will select something eclectic, something which I've mulled over, something I've heard about. And usually Nineteenth Century literature is inexpensive, plentiful, and attractive.
So I picked up books of Tennyson and Yeats the other day, and while reading Tennyson I came across a poem entitled "The Two Voices." This rang a bell: many years ago I received another odd gift: a comic-book style magazine of some of Lewis Carroll's poetry. The magazine was named for the first selection, and called "The Three Voices." Clearly I'd stumbled across a Nineteenth Century poetry controversy! An original poem and its parody!
I wandered around the Internet looking for Carroll's "The Three Voices" and, failing to find it, decided to put up the poem myself so that no one else would ever be frustrated in their attempt to compare and contrast the two poems.
So now here it is, for your education and elucidation, The Three Voices versus The Two Voices.
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