Carmen Possum
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title:
Carmen Possum
text:
Carmen Possum is a popular 80-line macaronic poem written in a mix of Latin and English and dating to the 19th century. Its author is unknown, but the poem's theme and language enable one to surmise that he or she was from the United States of America and was either a teacher or at least a student of Latin. The title is a multilingual pun: it could be taken to mean "I Can Sing" in Latin, but, as revealed in the text, it is supposed to mean "Song of the Opossum". However, both interpretations vio
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80-line Macaronic poem
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Possum
date created:
2004-05-19T14:49:51Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T12:50:16Z
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