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I Like Poetry; And You Do Too
Topic Started: Aug 2 2013, 10:40 PM (746 Views)
Jsbwalker
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Chicka Bow!
I'm tired of not having any actually active and interesting things to do outside of the chat box. So here's an organized attempt to engage in some artistic and literary conversation.

I like poetry. I like reading poetry, and I like writing poetry.
I like talking about poetry, and I like analyzing poetry.

This is a place to do those things above that I like. Feel free to post a poem that you or someone else has written, talk about poems that have been posted, talk about various poetic devices and how they can be used to write more meaningfully, hold themed poetry contests; dance naked, coated in motor oil, in the morning sun when the light glistens most beautifully off your supple skin. Whatever your heart desires (regarding poetry).

I think there might have been something like this before, but I remember it not lasting long.
I also admit that this is an attempt to give me a reason to write more.

To to get things started,
A Poem entitled: Strangelove 2001

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thewryness
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Chicka Bow!
The following poem started me on the road to a deep respect for the essayist, author, school inspector, poet, and generally awesome guy with amazing side-whiskers: Matthew Arnold.

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/arnold/writings/doverbeach.html

It's a wonderful poem I first heard when I was 11 or 12. I think I also got heavily into Sophocles because of this poem. There's also a link to commentary available on the site. If you'd rather I post the poem in its entirety, please let me know. I also have an Ogden Nash poem to post if you like.

Have a great day and I hope this venture of yours is successful. :)
 
Jsbwalker
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Chicka Bow!
thewryness
Aug 3 2013, 08:34 AM
The following poem started me on the road to a deep respect for the essayist, author, school inspector, poet, and generally awesome guy with amazing side-whiskers: Matthew Arnold.

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/arnold/writings/doverbeach.html

It's a wonderful poem I first heard when I was 11 or 12. I think I also got heavily into Sophocles because of this poem. There's also a link to commentary available on the site. If you'd rather I post the poem in its entirety, please let me know. I also have an Ogden Nash poem to post if you like.

Have a great day and I hope this venture of yours is successful. :)
I really like that poem, I especially like how he uses the meter to conjure feelings of melancholic waves on the beach.
although what he is sad about and the actual subject matter of the poem I can debate about. It seems like he is just scared of change,
or maybe has an idealistic view of the past. I can really get behind the emotion and conviction that he conveys his point though;
the imagery is beautiful.

I'm actually surprised that I haven't read this before especially since it seems to be rather tried and over-analyzed,
I'll have to read up on this one more. :)
 
JoeShmoe
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I Just Got Nommed
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Edited by JoeShmoe, Aug 3 2013, 05:21 PM.
 
thewryness
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Chicka Bow!
Would I had the courage to post a poem I'd written in my adolescence. You have my admiration, JoeShmoe.
 
16KTS
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Big Sweaty Moose Bleepers
Poem was written in High School by me.
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thewryness
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Chicka Bow!
The movie isn't bad, honest!

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
 
Unfie
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Big Sweaty Moose Bleepers
got one

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iPwnies
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Here's a haiku

Forum poetry
Feels like Lego on my feet
It pains me to read
 
thewryness
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Chicka Bow!
Another haiku

Critics, here's yer fate
Though some poetry is great
Haters gonna hate
 
Jsbwalker
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Chicka Bow!
Another Haiku

iPwnies snarking
With pretension, without cause
Eat him my ponies

EDIT: Looks like we had the same idea. :)
Edited by Jsbwalker, Aug 17 2013, 02:35 AM.
 
Jsbwalker
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Chicka Bow!
I actually memorized Jabberwocky for school a long time ago, but for some reason I never forgot it and can recite it entirely to this day.
One of the stupidest arguments I've ever gotten in was about this poem actually. On and off over an entire weekend I argued with a friend of mine
about the pronunciation of the nonsense words and we didn't get anywhere for obvious reasons. He wanted the words cacophonous, and I preferred them
euphonious.

Never seen the movie though. IMDB seems to be unimpressed with it, and I'm not sure where I'd get a copy If I was to go looking, so it's quality
will remain a mystery to me.
 
iPwnies
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Admiring my style
Want to copy my poems
Can't top the master
 
Jsbwalker
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Chicka Bow!
That haiku has 18 syllables and no kireji.
Edited by Jsbwalker, Aug 17 2013, 02:36 AM.
 
thewryness
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Chicka Bow!
My dad taped Jabberwocky off the TV way back in the day. The music gets quite creepy and there are MANY deaths. Not a bad movie.

Also, for iPwnies

The world's most pessimistic poem

Hope?
Nope.

I kid you not - this is a real poem.

http://theworldaintemo.blogspot.ca/2009/05/worlds-shortest-pessimistic-poem.html
 
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