Grex Poetry3 Conference

Item 177: A Game for poetry Conf.

Entered by ponder on Tue Mar 14 02:15:27 2000:

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#9 of 178 by brighn on Thu Mar 16 15:56:52 2000:

Given that punctuation isn't necessary in free verse, all that making a
"punctuation" rule would accomplish is generating poems with no punctuation.
A strict interpretation of the intent of the rules would say that, in each
pair of prompt words, the first word msut be used in the context of the poem
as an adjective modifying teh second word, which must be used as a noun.

However, I think that a broader rule, stating merely that the two prompt words
must be an adjective and a noun, out of context, and that they must appear
successively in the poem, allows for greater creativity and reflects the
spirit of the exercise.

OF course, I may only be saying this because I both put punctuation in between
two words (doubtful ; frog) and used one of the nouns as an adjective (swift
estate sale). =} 

All the same, I felt like the use of Cyanide... mittens... did make much
sense, that is, didn't exploit the meanings of the words, but rather just used
them as "words".
er didn't make much sense

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