Poetry

[sighyoung]

[expletive] poetry.

I bet you'd [expletive] then eat it if it was covered with gravy.

Yes. I would.

Fatbulldog loves gravy
Bacon is right up there too
[expletive] it lets eat NOW!

Very nice haiku.

[wart57]

[expletive] poetry.

I bet you'd [expletive] then eat it if it was covered with gravy.

Yes. I would.

Fatbulldog loves gravy
Bacon is right up there too
[expletive] it lets eat NOW!

Very nice haiku.

Fatbulldog is my muse....

[jim]

sigh - you mentioned different periods that you prefer more than others. Does it closely follow music and art in terms of the periods? Classical, Romantic, Impressionism, etc... I assume it would.

[sighyoung]

sigh - you mentioned different periods that you prefer more than others. Does it closely follow music and art in terms of the periods? Classical, Romantic, Impressionism, etc... I assume it would.

Kind of. Romanticism has a comparable literary movement, and British poetry is influenced by classical (particularly Latin) poetry in a number of periods, especially during the Renaissance and the 18th century. (That's why we count feet in English poetry--the Renaissance British poets wanted their poetry to be up to snuff with classical literature, so they tried to accommodate ). Impressionism, not so much. For British literature, for instance, besides Anglo-Saxon poetry (with its own rules--counting stresses and lots of alliteration, with its own cultural expectations), Middle-English poetry (Chaucer, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"), Renaissance (Shakespeare, Ben Jonson), the Metaphysical poets (John Donne), Milton, neo-classical poetry (John Dryden through the Augustan poets in the 18th century, such as Pope and Swift), transitional figures (Burns, Akenside, and others), the Romantics (Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Coleridge), Victorians (Tennyson, Browning, Rossetti, Swinburne, etc.), the Modernists (Eliot and Pound, though they're international), and so on. They all have their own social cultural concerns which are reflected in their themes and literary styles.

[docellis]

TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

[cards2468]

I hate poetry
It is for dumb emo hipsters
Refrigerator

[Smith Corks One]

TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Yeats, another favorite. I used to get drunk and recite this one at parties; I'm sure I was widely considered a tool.

[Smith Corks One]

I hate poetry
It is for dumb emo hipsters
Refrigerator

If you're going for haiku, you need to contract "It is" to "It's". The second line can only have 7 syllables. Just sayin'.

[jim]

TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

See right there - that first line just sounds so weird to me so I stop reading. I do not know what a gyre is for one thing. I skim - probably not a good strategy for poetry - and then I see "loosed" and remember about the time I made fun of a friend for spelling it like that online.

I think appreciating poetry is something you are just born with or not.

[The Third Man]

I had to write a poem in iambic pentameter in class today. Here is my work:


This class is hard when you don't do the work
If I had read the books I would not be
So stressed that I can't write a poem that's good
The fear that I'll do bad for all to see

Can I be smart when I am such a bum?
Next time when I do read my work won't suck
I laze and sigh but don't pick up a pen
Then go to sleep cause I don't give a [expletive].