Clerihew, where are you?
A clerihew is an ametrical four line poem which starts with the name of a person and then describes them. Go on, you know you want to.
Ezra Pound
Is widely accepted to have broken new poetic ground.
However, this does not excuse
His feelings on the Jews.
W.B Yeats
Was interested in altered states,
But he never lived to see the widespread availability of pot
So he went to séances, and also drank a lot.
D.H. Lawrence:
To him mosquitoes and bats were an abhorrence.
The animal kingdom proved too much for him to take
So he threw a log at a snake.
Ezra Pound
Is widely accepted to have broken new poetic ground.
However, this does not excuse
His feelings on the Jews.
W.B Yeats
Was interested in altered states,
But he never lived to see the widespread availability of pot
So he went to séances, and also drank a lot.
D.H. Lawrence:
To him mosquitoes and bats were an abhorrence.
The animal kingdom proved too much for him to take
So he threw a log at a snake.
2 comments:
Henry James
Gave his novels clever-sounding names;
Edmund Gosse
Was at a loss.
Robert Lowell
Never wrote a poem about a mole;
But if he had written one,
It would have been a 14 line unrhyming 'sonnet' with no metrical consistency, written from the mole's perspective and containing considered views on religion, philosophy and the politics of the age, and would have had a title like 'Moles, Nixon, etc - August 1971'
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