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Dear Fran,
I have a poetry related question that I thought you might be able to help with. See, I'm actually poorly right now and talking a lot of nonsense, and sometimes I say words that I would like to mean something but they already mean something else. For example... I would quite like the word "laser" to mean someone who is lazy but unfortunately it doesn't.
Can you use this kind of stuff in poetry to write a about something using completely the wrong words yet still get your point across clearly? Ideally I would like to make a poem that really should make no sense at all and almost every word is used incorrectly. Does this already exist and if so what is this called?
Thanks very much!!!!
Tom
I have a poetry related question that I thought you might be able to help with. See, I'm actually poorly right now and talking a lot of nonsense, and sometimes I say words that I would like to mean something but they already mean something else. For example... I would quite like the word "laser" to mean someone who is lazy but unfortunately it doesn't.
Can you use this kind of stuff in poetry to write a about something using completely the wrong words yet still get your point across clearly? Ideally I would like to make a poem that really should make no sense at all and almost every word is used incorrectly. Does this already exist and if so what is this called?
Thanks very much!!!!
Tom
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To be entirely honest I’m not sure if it is already a form or not. If it was it would doubtless be something to do with a modern movement like dadaism, surrealism, or literary nonsense. I’ll look into it!
Give it a go, why not? You can do almost anything with poetry if you do it well. It might be interesting. Send me what you write if you fancy.
F x
Posted December 29, 2010 at 5:44pm
