Poems With Borrowed Elements FOUND POEMS The poet

Poems With Borrowed Elements

FOUND POEMS The poet takes prose and text from stories, novels, essays, and other writing – then reshapes the words into an original poem.

Found Poem from J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit Chapter 1 “An Unexpected Party” (by Jill Johnson) A Nice Little Second Breakfast Please come to tea. Put on the kettle. Another cup and saucer. An extra cake or two. A little beer would suit me. Seed-cake, if you have any. A big jug of coffee. Round of buttered scones. A little red wine. Raspberry jam and appletart. Mince-pies and cheese. Pork-pie and salad. More cakes and ale and coffee. Put on a few eggs. And just bring out The cold chicken and pickles!

Pastiche A patchwork of lines or passages from another writer or writers intended as a kind of imitation. Or, using the style of another writer. This imitation or mimicry is done with respect. It is not a parody – not a satire. Many poets have used Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” in their pastiche poetry – his rhyme scheme & meter.

Epigraph A Quotation from another literary work that is placed after the title at the beginning of a poem. For example, “American Solitude” begins with the epigraph from M. Moore. Epigraphs can also be used after the titles of short stories and novels. Stephen King used epigraphs at the beginning of each new part in his novel The Stand.

American Solitude by Grace Schulman “The cure for loneliness is solitude. ” ~Marianne Moore Hopper never painted this, but here on a snaky path his vision lingers: three white tombs, robots with glassed-in faces and meters for eyes, grim mouths, flat noses, lean forward on a platform, like strangers with identical frowns scanning a blur, far off, that might be their train. Gas tanks broken for decades face Parson’s smithy, planked shut now. Both relics must stay. The pumps have roots in gas pools, and the smithy stores memories of hammers forging scythes to cut spartina grass for dry salt hay. continues… This poem

Formal Application by Donald W. Baker "The poets apparently want to rejoin the human race. " TIME EPIGRAPH I shall begin by learning to throw the knife, first at trees, until it sticks to my seat, until the proper bird, in the trunk and quivers every time; a towhee, I think, in black and rust and gray, takes tossed crumbs six next from a chair, using only wrist feet away. and fingers, at a thing on the ground, a fresh ant hill or a fallen leaf; Finally, I shall coordinate conditioned reflex and functional then at a moving object, perhaps form and qualify as Modern Man. a pieplate swinging on twine, until I pot it at least twice in three tries. You see the splash of blood and feathers Meanwhile, I shall be teaching the birds and the blade pinning it to the tree? that the skinny fellow in sneakers It's called an "Audubon Crucifix. " is a source of suet and bread crumbs, The phrase has pleasing (even first putting them on a shingle nailed pious) to a pine tree, next scattering them connotations, like Arbeit Macht Frei, on the needles, closer and closer "Molotov Cocktail, " and Enola Gay.

maxim aphorism adage proverb These words are synonyms.

Gnomic Verse Examples of contemporary gnomic verse Poems full of… Proverbs: a short clever saying stating a general truth or piece of advice “You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. ” Aphorisms: a brief observation that contains a general truth “If it ain't broke, don't fix it. ” Maxims: a short statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct “Better safe than sorry. ”

Adage: a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth “You get what you pay for. ” “A picture is worth a thousand words. ” Colloquialism: a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, but used in ordinary or familiar conversation. “Go bananas!” “Go nuts!” “You look blue. ” “Buzz off!” the use of “wanna” and “gonna” and “y’all”
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