ENGL 345 Lecture Notes - Donald Rumsfeld, Flarf Poetry, Annie Dillard

• School: McGill University
• Department: English (Arts)
• Course: ENGL 345
• Professor: Nathalie Cooke

Document Summary

Http://www. poets. org/viewmedia. php/prmmid/5780 for a definition of found poetry. Hart seely simply took a quote from donald rumsfeld on the unknown and restructured it. This makes it basically the ideal found poem. Not held back by strict structure, (everything varies) and poetic devices are not necessary. There are different varieties of found poetry. Cento: made from the lines of other poems. Has existed for ages where people were taking inspiration from virgil and ovid. Erasure: created by erasing words in a poem. One stanza, 14 lines, each with great variation in terms of stress and stanza. All of the lines here are taken from other poems. Looking at these two shows the diversity of the form. As technology has progressed, so has found poetry. Elementary treatise of mechanics by william whewell http://branemrys. blogspot. com/2010/09/whewell-and-found-poetry. html. A lot of people question the legitimacy of this form as being a real form.