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Title: Poetry - ya likes? or no?
Post by: Kamikaze on February 13, 2003, 01:53:30 am
hmm was just wondering if you peeps have any tastes in poetry or whether you utterly despise it...

personally I prefer more straightforward ways of communicating but it's fun when you think of it as a "code" or sorts...

So, post your fav poems here... :D



yes, I'm using HLP for homework material but at least this will have content.... :p

damn, shoulda had a poll :p
Title: Poetry - ya likes? or no?
Post by: CP5670 on February 13, 2003, 02:04:06 am
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utterly despise it


That about says it for me... :D

Do you have to write poems for english class? I had to do that some years ago; very, very difficult and frustrating.
Title: Poetry - ya likes? or no?
Post by: Sandwich on February 13, 2003, 02:11:13 am
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Originally posted by CP5670


That about says it for me... :D

Do you have to write poems for english class? I had to do that some years ago; very, very difficult and frustrating.


Actually, CP, methinks you'd like a certain kind of Japanese poetry called Haiku - it has a very rigid mathematical framework you need to work in. First line must be composed of 5 syllables, second line of 7, and the third and final line of 5 once again. Aside from that, you're completely free do write whatever you like.



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Post by: Blue Lion on February 13, 2003, 02:14:07 am
Limericks are more my style
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Post by: Knight Templar on February 13, 2003, 02:18:49 am
Haiku annoys me
                                I learned it in comp. lit class
                                      it's best not to ask


                                               :p
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Post by: Kamikaze on February 13, 2003, 02:24:58 am
I have to write/read/analyse poems for english class. I don't utterly despise poems, but certainly don't like them much.

By the way, one of the poems I "analyzed" was Shivan Pie :D (though it's not strictly a poem :p)
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Post by: Knight Templar on February 13, 2003, 02:27:35 am
Care to share your pie with my eye?


:D
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Post by: Kamikaze on February 13, 2003, 02:30:48 am
PIEPIEPIEPIEPIE (http://www.cyberberry.com/kamikaze/ShivanPie1.htm)

Pie for all ;) (credits to Eishtmo for making it)

Now if someone would re-record the song with those lyrics :D
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Post by: Tiara on February 13, 2003, 02:35:23 am
One from some sort of Haiku generator

lovely hyena
licks fiercely, hullaballoo
beseeches, eery

or

chimeras castrate
chase bears somersault softly
strongly, snowstorms loom


:lol:

Heres one of mine:

Apocolypse:

expectation melts
destroying immortal
Ending is nearing
Title: Poetry - ya likes? or no?
Post by: kode on February 13, 2003, 05:32:53 am
stavelser fattar
jag inte på engelska
så det blir svenska
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Post by: Pera on February 13, 2003, 06:07:13 am
Poetry in english, finnish and swedish.

English:

Island island, Grassy island. Grassy islands bride.

Same in finnish:

Saari saari, heinäsaari. Heinäsaaren morsian.

And swedish:

Ö ö, hö ö, hö öns mö.  (ö is pronounced the same way as "ir" in bird)

As you can see, swedish is the beautiful language in the world.




Sorry, old joke :wink:
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Post by: Styxx on February 13, 2003, 06:59:34 am
I like poetry, but haiku sucks. :D :p
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Post by: kode on February 13, 2003, 09:09:26 am
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Originally posted by Pera

Ö ö, hö ö, hö öns mö.  (ö is pronounced the same way as "ir" in bird)

As you can see, swedish is the beautiful language in the world.


hmm... yeah. better be a joke, cuz I can't figure out wtf that means. or "öhh?"
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Post by: Martinus on February 13, 2003, 09:30:58 am
[color=66ff00]Let go the ting rocket to rate the fallen tree.
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Post by: Sesquipedalian on February 13, 2003, 03:54:10 pm
Good poetry can be very powerful.  The trick is to allow the words to paint the picture, to establish the medium of thought and understanding, to guide (or rather, create) your emotional responses.  If few here appreciate good poetry, it is either because they have had little experience with it or because they have not cultivated the necessary sort of imagination.  We are a bunch of gamers here: we like visual presentations.  To be linguistically based rather than visually based requires another sort of mind-set, and only some here will have developed that.

Oh, and to answer the question, yes I do.
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Post by: Sandwich on February 13, 2003, 04:25:54 pm
Jabberwocky (http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html)
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Post by: Galemp on February 13, 2003, 05:45:20 pm
When your nose is runny
You may think that it is funny
But it'snot.
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Post by: Sandwich on February 13, 2003, 05:57:25 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich
Jabberwocky (http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html)


By the way, I didn't write that one. :p
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Post by: Stryke 9 on February 13, 2003, 05:58:54 pm
Poetry can be really good, or really bad (i.e. free verse or anything ever written by a high school student, myself included).

I like the good stuff, dislike the ****.


If I get the energy up later tonight, I might put in a bit from something or other.
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Post by: CODEDOG ND on February 13, 2003, 06:37:42 pm
I like it in music...
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Post by: Black Wolf on February 13, 2003, 07:30:21 pm
You have to get the right poet, and the right poem. I like a lot of William Blakes stuff, and Sylvia Plaths (weird, but good once you know what she's talking about). I don't have too much experience though - anyone have any suggestions as to good poets to read?
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Post by: Sesquipedalian on February 13, 2003, 11:28:36 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich


By the way, I didn't write that one. :p
:lol: Really? ;)
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Post by: Sesquipedalian on February 13, 2003, 11:49:21 pm
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
You have to get the right poet, and the right poem. I like a lot of William Blakes stuff, and Sylvia Plaths (weird, but good once you know what she's talking about). I don't have too much experience though - anyone have any suggestions as to good poets to read?
I don't know Plaths, but if you like Blake you'd do well to try Milton.  T. S. Eliot is always worthwhile.  You might like Yeats from the 20th c. or Shelley from the 19th.  If you enjoy language in and of itself, try Gerard Manley Hopkins (he dances the sounds masterfully and carefully, and is one of the few poets I know who can be florid and actually make it work, and work well).

Those are all "big names" that anyone could pull out of a poetry anthology: there's a reason they get into the anthologies, but they are by no means the fulness of good poetry.  You'll find it all sorts of places, usually by people you've never heard of before.  

My most practical advice would be to check a poetry anthology or two out of the library to start with, and then move on to trying out other books.  See what sort of eras and styles you like, and then pursue them further.
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Post by: Tiara on February 13, 2003, 11:53:23 pm
Hmmm... I'm surprised... No comments on the Hyena castrate haiku :p
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Post by: Sesquipedalian on February 13, 2003, 11:58:53 pm
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Originally posted by Tiara
Hmmm... I'm surprised... No comments on the Hyena castrate haiku :p
That would be because it sucked. ;)
Title: Poetry - ya likes? or no?
Post by: Tiara on February 14, 2003, 12:42:53 am
I know, but I'd expected there to be some smart ass comments :wink:

Well, I think people on this board are finally starting to grow up :D
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Post by: Blue Lion on February 14, 2003, 01:27:24 am
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Originally posted by Tiara
I know, but I'd expected there to be some smart ass comments :wink:

Well, I think people on this board are finally starting to grow up :D



No, just beaten into submission
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Post by: Sandwich on February 14, 2003, 01:30:30 am
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Originally posted by Tiara
Well, I think people on this board are finally starting to grow up :D


No.
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Post by: Tiara on February 14, 2003, 01:31:55 am
Good [glow=red]:D[/glow]
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Post by: Knight Templar on February 14, 2003, 01:36:17 am
Yes, ... mature (http://www.3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/haveadrink.jpg)


"me mature staff. me mature staff bouncy bouncy!"
Title: Poetry - ya likes? or no?
Post by: CP5670 on February 14, 2003, 01:41:05 am
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Actually, CP, methinks you'd like a certain kind of Japanese poetry called Haiku - it has a very rigid mathematical framework you need to work in. First line must be composed of 5 syllables, second line of 7, and the third and final line of 5 once again. Aside from that, you're completely free do write whatever you like.


Yes, I had to do some of that before. The problem is that, while the syllable constraints are not too bad, it is hard to write a whole lot in just three short sentences; you have to drop and condense words everywhere.

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Jabberwocky


hehe, Carroll (the guy who wrote that) was a mathematician. :D

Does math qualify as poetry? One could argue that it is poetry in a sense, just of a different kind. :D
Title: Poetry - ya likes? or no?
Post by: Black Wolf on February 14, 2003, 02:04:56 am
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Originally posted by CP5670


Yes, I had to do some of that before. The problem is that, while the syllable constraints are not too bad, it is hard to write a whole lot in just three short sentences; you have to drop and condense words everywhere.



hehe, Carroll (the guy who wrote that) was a mathematician. :D

Does math qualify as poetry? One could argue that it is poetry in a sense, just of a different kind. :D
No... one couldn't (or at least, one shouldn't. :p
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