Thanks for this, Bloomsby. I have to share a story. In my college Introduction to Literature course I always ended a unit on poetry by having students do presentations in which they read aloud one of the poems in our anthology and gave context for it. One student explaining D.H. Lawrence's poem "The Snake" - which is set on the island of Sicily - confidently explained the phrase "...and Etna smoking": Etna was the poet's wife, and she was - yes, you guessed it - smoking.
Mount Etna Erupts
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