My favourite example isn't from poetry at all, actually...it's from the manga/anime series 黒執事（Kuroshitsuji, or Black Butler in English) in which the title character, who is a demon and a butler often says "あくまで執事です" which can be read as either "aku made shitsuji desu" (am a butler to the end) or "akuma de shitsuji desu" (am a demon and a butler). The fansubbers, and later Funimation translated it in English as "I am one hell of a butler".
Also, slightly OT, but I was amused to see you invoke Joshua in this post, since he was the second person I thought of when you introduced this topic at the beginning of the week. (The first was one of his former grad students, to whose eloquent ranting I owe most of my knowledge on the subject. XD)
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Date: 2012-02-25 07:41 am (UTC)Also, slightly OT, but I was amused to see you invoke Joshua in this post, since he was the second person I thought of when you introduced this topic at the beginning of the week. (The first was one of his former grad students, to whose eloquent ranting I owe most of my knowledge on the subject. XD)