The Tom O' Bedlam Poem
WARNING: THE BANDERSNATCH BLOG CONTAINS INFORMATION AND OPINIONS THAT THE PUBLIC MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL INFORMATION WILL BE CHECKED AND OPINIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF THE MAIN BLOGGER HERSELF. Hey there Earthlings, Alternatives and Trollers. Put down that mouse and lend an ear. Welcome to The Bandersnatch blog where we talk weird, wacky and wondrous. I'm The Bandersnatch and I have no idea what I'm doing. Random blog day boo yah. As you should know Fridays is random blog day were we talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the Poem Tom O' Bedlam. Tom O' Bedlam is the title of an anonymous poem from th e “Mad Song” Genre, written in the voice of a “Bedlamite” whose homeless. The poem was most likely composed at the beginning of the 1600's/17 th century. In How to Read and Why Harold Bloom called it “The Greatest Anonymous lyric in the (English) Language”. The Terms “Tom O...