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- Firedrake969
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Poetry
Discuss your favorite (not your own!) poetry here.
I still remember “Invictus”. I memorized two years back, and really liked it.
Note: There was a poetry topic, but it was for any type, including poetry people made up.
I still remember “Invictus”. I memorized two years back, and really liked it.
Note: There was a poetry topic, but it was for any type, including poetry people made up.
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- happygoat432
- Scratcher
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Poetry
My favorite poem:
New York is in North Carolina
Seattle is found in Peru
New Mexico borders on Norway and Italy
Boston's near Kalamazoo
Quebec is a town in Hawaii
Connecticut lies in Treste
Those are a few of the answers I wrote
When I flunked the geography test
-Jack Prelutsky
New York is in North Carolina
Seattle is found in Peru
New Mexico borders on Norway and Italy
Boston's near Kalamazoo
Quebec is a town in Hawaii
Connecticut lies in Treste
Those are a few of the answers I wrote
When I flunked the geography test
-Jack Prelutsky
The loveliest lies of all~
- StarscreamClone
- Scratcher
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Edgar Allan Poe's. Naturally.
Somewhere in my 20s | He/It
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- CN12
- Scratcher
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Poetry
The best poem ever:
There's Nothing In That Drawer by Ron Padgett
There's nothing in that drawer.
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and my lit class had to analize this
There's Nothing In That Drawer by Ron Padgett
There's nothing in that drawer.
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and my lit class had to analize this
- StarscreamClone
- Scratcher
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Poetry
What was the consensus regarding the meaning? The best poem ever:
There's Nothing In That Drawer by Ron Padgett
There's nothing in that drawer.
There's nothing in that drawer.
There's nothing in that drawer.
There's nothing in that drawer.
There's nothing in that drawer.
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and my lit class had to analize this
Somewhere in my 20s | He/It
Workin' on my degree in computer science and cognitive science, and the future president of 2036!
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- CN12
- Scratcher
1000+ posts
Poetry
Well it's 14 linesWhat was the consensus regarding the meaning? The best poem ever:
There's Nothing In That Drawer by Ron Padgett
There's nothing in that drawer.
There's nothing in that drawer.
There's nothing in that drawer.
There's nothing in that drawer.
There's nothing in that drawer.
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and my lit class had to analize this
A sonnet has 14 lines
So it's basically a sonnet
And poems are meant to be read aloud, so this one was about if you say a specific word(s) over and over and over, it sounds really strange.
- StarscreamClone
- Scratcher
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Poetry
Geez, it sounds like the sort of analyzing we'd have to do here…Well it's 14 linesWhat was the consensus regarding the meaning? The best poem ever:
There's Nothing In That Drawer by Ron Padgett
There's nothing in that drawer.
There's nothing in that drawer.
There's nothing in that drawer.
There's nothing in that drawer.
There's nothing in that drawer.
There's nothing in that drawer.
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and my lit class had to analize this
A sonnet has 14 lines
So it's basically a sonnet
And poems are meant to be read aloud, so this one was about if you say a specific word(s) over and over and over, it sounds really strange.
Somewhere in my 20s | He/It
Workin' on my degree in computer science and cognitive science, and the future president of 2036!
Surge is my imaginary husband - he's the guy in my icon!
- autumnleaves
- Scratcher
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Poetry
how is that even sort of relevant? sonnets have very fixed structures beyond “they're 14 lines”I know right that's stupid, why did they make you analyze that?
We've done a lot of Shakespeare lately, so I guess it was sort of relevant, but I dunno…
- CN12
- Scratcher
1000+ posts
Poetry
Don't ask me; I was not the one who chose the poems that we analyzed.how is that even sort of relevant? sonnets have very fixed structures beyond “they're 14 lines”I know right that's stupid, why did they make you analyze that?
We've done a lot of Shakespeare lately, so I guess it was sort of relevant, but I dunno…
- Firedrake969
- Scratcher
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Poetry
I agree with liking non-rhyming poetry. Not to be negative, but I strongly dislike poetry. I guess my favorite would be the kind that doesn't rhyme.
And reading Shakespeare is like reading gibberish of another language.
'17 rickoid
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- StarscreamClone
- Scratcher
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Poetry
For the latter, you really aren't missing out on much. I found Romeo and Juliet dull, and the fact that Romeo seems like an obsessive stalker when you analyze his personality in the beginning kind of ripped apart the idea of a story about ‘true love’. That's only one of his works, though, so eh. Not to be negative, but I strongly dislike poetry. I guess my favorite would be the kind that doesn't rhyme.
And reading Shakespeare is like reading gibberish of another language.
I liked Mercutio, though. Mercutio was a funny character. 'Course he was killed off…
Somewhere in my 20s | He/It
Workin' on my degree in computer science and cognitive science, and the future president of 2036!
Surge is my imaginary husband - he's the guy in my icon!
- Firedrake969
- Scratcher
1000+ posts
Poetry
Anyone notice how in Much Ado about Nothing, there's another friar who makes another plan to create another fake death?For the latter, you really aren't missing out on much. I found Romeo and Juliet dull, and the fact that Romeo seems like an obsessive stalker when you analyze his personality in the beginning kind of ripped apart the idea of a story about ‘true love’. That's only one of his works, though, so eh. Not to be negative, but I strongly dislike poetry. I guess my favorite would be the kind that doesn't rhyme.
And reading Shakespeare is like reading gibberish of another language.
I liked Mercutio, though. Mercutio was a funny character. 'Course he was killed off…
'17 rickoid
bf97b44a7fbd33db070f6ade2b7dc549
- fetchydog567
- Scratcher
100+ posts
Poetry
The best poem ever:
There's Nothing In That Drawer Extended by Ron Padgett
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and my lit class had to analize this
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- bookworm7214
- Scratcher
100+ posts
Poetry
Favourite poem? Uhmm. . .
Here's two of my favourites:
The Thought-Fox
By Ted Hughes
I imagine this midnight moment's forest:
Something else is alive
Beside the clock's loneliness
And this blank page where my fingers move.
Through the window I see no star:
Something more near
Though deeper within darkness
Is entering the loneliness:
Cold, delicately as the dark snow,
A fox's nose touches twig, leaf;
Two eyes serve a movement, that now
And again now, and now, and now
Sets neat prints into the snow
Between trees, and warily a lame
Shadow lags by stump and in hollow
Of a body that is bold to come
Across clearings, an eye,
A widening deepening greenness,
Brilliantly, concentratedly,
Coming about its own business
Till, with sudden sharp hot stink of fox
It enters the dark hole of the head.
The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
The page is printed.
I have another one pinned to my wall, a gift from my ex English teacher, who retired. It's called The Door and written by Miroslav Holub. I would type it up, but eeh. I'm bored copying.
Any thoughts on these? Has anyone read either one?
Here's two of my favourites:
The Thought-Fox
By Ted Hughes
I imagine this midnight moment's forest:
Something else is alive
Beside the clock's loneliness
And this blank page where my fingers move.
Through the window I see no star:
Something more near
Though deeper within darkness
Is entering the loneliness:
Cold, delicately as the dark snow,
A fox's nose touches twig, leaf;
Two eyes serve a movement, that now
And again now, and now, and now
Sets neat prints into the snow
Between trees, and warily a lame
Shadow lags by stump and in hollow
Of a body that is bold to come
Across clearings, an eye,
A widening deepening greenness,
Brilliantly, concentratedly,
Coming about its own business
Till, with sudden sharp hot stink of fox
It enters the dark hole of the head.
The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
The page is printed.
I have another one pinned to my wall, a gift from my ex English teacher, who retired. It's called The Door and written by Miroslav Holub. I would type it up, but eeh. I'm bored copying.
Any thoughts on these? Has anyone read either one?
Original text:Please welcome my sister, gingerninja97, to the Scratch website!
“Scratch is an educational programming language aimed at children. It was developed in MIT, America.”
..35 translations later, Bing gives us:
“Australia Institute created the children's education, it doesn't matter.”
The above translation is courtesy of Akuna Bad Translator.
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- StarscreamClone
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Poetry
Doesn't surprise me. And anyway, Romeo and Juliet is a rip off of an earlier book, Romulus and Juliet. Seriously, Shakespeare? Well, it's like GLaDOS said, “Like Albert Einstein and his cousin Terry, history will only remember one of you.”Anyone notice how in Much Ado about Nothing, there's another friar who makes another plan to create another fake death?For the latter, you really aren't missing out on much. I found Romeo and Juliet dull, and the fact that Romeo seems like an obsessive stalker when you analyze his personality in the beginning kind of ripped apart the idea of a story about ‘true love’. That's only one of his works, though, so eh. Not to be negative, but I strongly dislike poetry. I guess my favorite would be the kind that doesn't rhyme.
And reading Shakespeare is like reading gibberish of another language.
I liked Mercutio, though. Mercutio was a funny character. 'Course he was killed off…
Somewhere in my 20s | He/It
Workin' on my degree in computer science and cognitive science, and the future president of 2036!
Surge is my imaginary husband - he's the guy in my icon!
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