thanks to all for comments.
Arthur - a carefully crafted piece, of course. (Would I say otherwise?)
It started as a 'found' poem - a fragment of conversation with the said
Derek which got sculpted into something that I hoped would be tight and
epigrammatic enough to
a) make the term oxymoron relevant and memorable
b) express my bitterness at the cruel intolerance of the current education
system
I take your point about balancing the two
'whatever-that-Welsh-term-is-thingummies' (there really ought to be an
English term for them), I'm just not sure about what that does for the
emphasis.
Bob - I gave it to Derek (my son's best friend, still at school) at 8am and
he was still sleep befuddled enough to think, for a few seconds, that it was
his homework. His smirk at the last line said it all. He took it to school
to show his teacher. Ah well. One more parent-teacher relationship down the
drain.
Terri )O(
-----Original Message-----
From: The Pennine Poetry Works [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Bob Cooper
Sent: 17 December 2002 18:43
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Subject: Re: New: English Homework
Hi Terri,
Wow! A class poem!
Bob
P.S. What does Derek think of it?
>From: alderoak <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New: English Homework
>Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:33:36 -0000
>
>English Homework
> (for Derek)
>
>A lovely day at school.
>
>Compare and contrast
>this oxymoron
>with other similar terms.
>
>The living dead
>for example.
>
>
>Terri )O(
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