Wergle Flomp Poetry Contest

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Mostly I just like the name, but the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest tickles my fancy: submit an absurd poem to a "vanity contest," as a joke, then also submit it to Wergle Flomp.

I think they should give their award to the most outrageous poem that WINS a vanity contest, but anyway... cheers. I have a latent subversive streak when it comes to making too much of poetry, despite being a highfalutin' bard.

I believe I tormented Mrs. Cope (English Teacher) once by giving her a batch of haikus my Random Basho Generator had created on my old Apple ][, just to tweak her nose, because (as I expected) she immediately started interpreting the profound meanings in each haiku. I was resisting poetry analysis as a colossal waste of time, because I was suspicious that it was a process of projection.

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[aerynvale.livejournal.com]

I was resisting poetry analysis at the time as a colossal waste of time, because I was suspicious that it was a process of projection.

So what were the results of your experiment? Also how old were you? I get this image of you as being like, 9 or 10 and doing this.

I remember getting really upset with art history stuff in high school because I could never see the meaning or symbolism in any of the paintings. I wrote a paper on it that was basically a rant about how it was all bullshit. I don't remember what grade I got for it but I didn't get chastised at least.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

I expect she was 16/17, as Mrs. Cope was our senior English teacher. :)

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Ah, poor Mrs. Cope. I think she gave me up as a loss when it came to poetry, because it was pretty clear that I had a lot of trouble wrapping my head around poetry. Though she liked my prose style (Mrs. Cope consistently gave me 5s on my essays, and gave Drue 4s, while Mr. Johns gave Drue 5s and me 4s... tells you something about our writing styles at the time!), which somewhat made up for my failings in the poetry department.

It took me years to be able to really look at a poem and Get It at all -- I think poetry is, in a lot of ways, like Tarot reading. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.