And here's review #2:
“Address to the Toothache”
-Robert Burns
I couldn’t understand all of the Scottish slang in this one, but the use of context clues helped me understand the humor. A toothache isn’t the worst thing that could happen, but he purposefully exaggerates all of these different kinds of ailments, still placing a toothache above them. He makes himself out to be a pitiful victim drooling over himself and getting laughed at. Then to finish it off, he damns his toothache to the darkest pit of hell. That’s a little over the top if you ask me but definitely amusing.
~E
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