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Some of Plath's feminist defenders say Hughes' "lax and digressive" verses "serve mostly to remind us of what a great poet she was" (Katha Pollitt, the New York Times Book Review ). Hughes' defenders use the occasion to restate their case against Plath's greatness: Her poetry was humorless and hyperbolic and would not be remembered had she not committed suicide.
The band's grunge formula, captured in "," combines woozy psychedelic-metal verses with explosive punk choruses.
The migratory quality of lyrics--the fact that lines and whole verses traveled from this song to that one, from blues to mountain ballad or vice versa, regardless of origin or even sense--made for a sort of native Surrealism, a collage by accretion.
It clearly seems to have appealed to the writer of some verses in Shooting Times & Country Magazine for 14 August 1975 — not spotted by the OED — which ran in part:
Innumerable chapters and verses might be cited without a definitive answer and without convincing any one side of the debate that `almah unquestionably means, or does not mean, `virgin' in Isaiah 7:14.