[lit-ideas] Re: Found Poetry
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 03:44:41 -0400
Anyone got any found poems to share? Best MN
EY: Here's a semi-found prose poem, scantily based on a page from
_Critical and Historical Essays_, Volume 1, by Thomas Babington Macaulay.
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*This little poem was born in the metropolis of Brahminical superstition*
The poem's authority must descend to its client, in imitation of
Horace's Otium Divos rogat. Scarcely given a symptom of life, its client
is inclined to think it could be defeated by the combined forces of the
Government, language, vacations, a CD-ROM, and the Farmer-General. But
the poem lives!
Even today, the tax-gatherers of France gratify a judicious lover of
liberty by reciting it: "A woman must hate kings if there is a poem for
which she feels real regard."
This little poem was born in the metropolis of Brahminical superstition.
It will be here for at least a week, even if you go to all lengths
against it. It is less suffering than a civil war. We are, therefore,
unable to anger money.
Dreading the indignation of connoisseurs, the poem turned white and hid
on the page. Poets see only a confirmation of their prejudices in it;
and some of the poem's clients are already spoiled to excess--such that
even you shrink from them, inasmuch as they are no longer able to
construe a line of characteristic haughtiness.
Others believe the poem a usurper, yet are also inclined to think it
imprudently generous.
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