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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Very Bad Poetry

Sometimes when we try to write a good poem, we write a bad poem. But what happens if we try to write a bad poem?

Your next assignment is to write some bad poetry. Some very bad poetry.

Some characteristics of very bad poetry:
  • Overly sentimental
  • Too many syllables or words in a line or phrase
  • False confidence in the beauty of the poem
  • Anticlimactic ending
  • Random
  • Forced rhymes, words, meter
  • Ridiculous metaphors, alliteration
  • Bad grammar
  • Poet's wooden ear for words
  • Stupid title
Very Bad Poetry website
Very Bad Poetry book

Due Sunday, 2/21
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