paigetheoracle Posted December 27, 2007 Report Share Posted December 27, 2007 Could the loss of phonetics in the classroom have destroyed rhyme - in other words destroyed the rhythm of the language, so that poetry cannot survive in such barren, verbal soil? (Or is there some other cause?):shrug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaurieAG Posted December 28, 2007 Report Share Posted December 28, 2007 Could the loss of phonetics in the classroom have destroyed rhyme - in other words destroyed the rhythm of the language, so that poetry cannot survive in such barren, verbal soil? (Or is there some other cause?):shrug: Hi Paige, They've gone to the same place as the protest songs ('Where have all the flowers gone' - the Seekers). They are no longer in the mainstream because that's been clogged up with (commercial) crap for quite a while now. If you look at what passes as poetry these days (travelogues etc) you probably wouldn't remember any of them anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mynah Posted March 15, 2008 Report Share Posted March 15, 2008 If the number of people who read verse and the number who write it were reversed, English literature would be greatly enriched. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahmabeliever Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Agreed. Everybody writes poetry, nobody reads it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paigetheoracle Posted March 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Agreed. Everybody writes poetry, nobody reads it. That's so sad but trueOh me, oh myBoo-ho, boo-ho!:hihi: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2 Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Poems have to change. Change to make people read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahmabeliever Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Hmmm, interesting, tell me how they need to change. Into eminem My palms are sweaty need enough rhymes to keep this rap steady have I used spaghetti already or a yeti at a wedding throwing confetti at steady eddy man I'm goona floor us I got a thesaurus for the words in the chorus there's like taurus porous and brontosaurus... Any MORON could do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahmabeliever Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 I consider myself a very good poet. Full of it, yes! Above average? By a country mile... But I have books of material I don't even bother to try publish. It's a vanity, a bunch of paper wasted that winds up fattening library collections with mandatory purchases of an unwanted product. Gift cards?..... I do an amazing eulogy.... Or I could be a ©rap singer.... I could perhaps write the unreadable shite they call poetry in womens magazines.... I miss the good poetry too, but most of it is utter bunk. Lost love and teenage angst... Hell, I was toured to read at one time and in one city every month a lady came to read a new poem about how much she missed her dead cat. Takes a lot of red wine and cash payments to make that shite palatable. Old ladies with dead cats and spare time have destroyed poetry! Here's one that took 60 hours. My Love Is Dyslexic. My love is dyslexicSo dimly veyse clixDyslexic my love isLyes so civil myxedDyslexic is my loveOim sex devyyl slicMy dyslexic love isExiledmylovyssic My heart is painedDespair in my heatLies broken dam stainedTorn insides made bleakMemories are twistedTime I wasted, remorseAnd though still I wish itThis ill wind as I thought My, love is dyslexicX loved, slim yys iceDyslexic my love, isSexy dollys, mi viceDyslexic, is my loveCoy sex, vile dismylMy dyslexic love isExcisedMylovysil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahmabeliever Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 I'm working on hidden code and subtext in script now. My audience is more likely to be linguistics professors than average Joe. A rhyming epic of a 16th century gravedigger (recorded as the country's greatest romantic poet) has in it's original script hidden codes and passages revealing a concealed manuscript. The concealed manuscript is a gothic piece of murder and mayhem. Basically the story reveals a first class sociopath, well loved, and completely evil. This I have worked on for 2 decades. Will it ever be finished, I hope so. Got several inventions to finish first, then I'll have time to write again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 ...poetry cannot survive in such barren, verbal soil? Agreed. Everybody writes poetry, nobody reads it. :hyper: Ohhh dilemma,you two-headed snake,making us choose,making us stake. I want to agree with both everybody and nobody, but I have to go with somebody and somebody. Quatrain Corner 2,987 Replies: 76,478 Views Who reads this stuff!!?? :cup: :doh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 I read it, and haven't got a clue how to do it. I tried a few times times. Stank worse than ****. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahmabeliever Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Ahhah - A closet cell of poets! And you coin a nice phrase too. Numbers are fun in verse aren't they. Till they do this 2 them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 I read it, and haven't got a clue how to do it. I tried a few times times. Stank worse than ****. Oh the very nary wit,stinking little balls of it,Turtle's bad to not have writ,the part how to, the needed bit. http://hypography.com/forums/lounge/1523-lounge-member-wannabees.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 17, 2008 Report Share Posted March 17, 2008 Could the loss of phonetics in the classroom have destroyed rhyme - in other words destroyed the rhythm of the language, so that poetry cannot survive in such barren, verbal soil? (Or is there some other cause?):doh: To this issue of 'destroying' the rhythm or rhyme of the language, I think it is a mistaken idea. These elements simply change over time. Language grows, and we peeps both grow it, and grow with it. There is no 'good old days'; these be them. From beat poetry, to ballads, to blues, to rap, rhyme & rhythm just won't go away. :hyper: :cup: As I was going up the stair,I met a man who wasn't there; he wasn't there again today, I wish I wish, he'd stay away.~Hughes Mearns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet2 Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 Singing behind the shower curtain?Or performance on stage?Are you ready?Or are you serious?We don't write poetry.Nor we craft words and phases.Live life fully.Or quietly fade away... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahmabeliever Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 Poetry, poet treeOdes of old and ancestryWords cascade like autumn leavessheltering the soil and seeds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 18, 2008 Report Share Posted March 18, 2008 :cheer: :phones: As I was going up the stair,I met a man who wasn't there; he wasn't there again today, I wish I wish, he'd stay away.~Hughes Mearns Hi Paige, I don't know if you recognize this author, but in checking my reference I see he shared an interest as you do, in stimulating children's creativity. So here's a Wiki real quicky: >> William Hughes Mearns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Turtle Out :eek: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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