Judy, did your teacher mean you had plagiarised an entire poem, which I
cannot believe, or did she mean that your way of writing was not original?
If that's it, I'd say plagiarised isn't the right term. Surely we all 'have
a go' at various styles at different stages in our writing lives, more or
less consciously trying them out -- it's how we develop our own voice and
technique, and it's akin to copying the Great Masters at art school, or
learning musical form by writing a set of variations in the style, say, of
Mozart. Very few writers find their own original style springs up for them
fully formed from the start. The danger is, that we get hung up on writing
pseudo-Keats or whoever, and can't progress. I'd say it's your teacher's job
to put some different examples in front of you!
cheer up
best joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "judy prince" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: "Fled is that Music. So Change the Record"
> Not good news, Ken. By the way, I should have thanked you for taking me
> seriously and giving all that explanation of your pome which made me
> understand it very well.
>
> I'm sad now, and it has nothing to do with your pomes which I always like
> very much. Actually my heart is broken. I'm holding the poem I got back
> today in class. She gave me an F on it. She said it was plagiarized
> which means copied. But why would I copy anything when I love to write
> poetry?! I'm a sad person right now, K.
>
> J (I never was yo mama, but maybe you could be my papa right now)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Wolman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 10:49 AM
> Subject: Re: "Fled is that Music. So Change the Record"
>
>
>> judy prince wrote:
>>
>>> Gotcha, Ken! I mean, I NEVER woulda guest it, not never! Poets should
>>> charge for this service---of explaining what the hell their pomes
>>> mean---thereby making enuff cash to pay for, uh, yeah, ok, forgit this .
>>> .
>>
>> Is it steady? Are there medical benefits? Do I get a company car and
>> expensive account? I figure that for slinging that kind of junk I oughta
>> get no more nor less than a life insurance salesman can ask for.
>>
>>> Howsomever, let's bring our intellects back to the kernel most
>>> meaningful to moi and my sis/bro POMES FER DUMMIES classmates: 1) Y
>>> don't poets know what their pomes mean? and 2) well, if U adequately
>>> answer #1, then U don't need me to pose #2.
>>
>> I don't feel badly about this anymore--that I don't know what the hell
>> most poems "mean." They mean something to me, they may mean something
>> else to you, or him, or her. I THINK (bad practice) most poems want me
>> to engage with them imaginatively. My imagination, not the writer's. If
>> we meet each other, awesome. If not, we'll always have Paris:-).
>>
>>> I've been watching you a long time, K, at least a month now, and I think
>>> you can well handle that one question.
>>
>> This is starting to sound like a song by The Police. "I'll Be Watching
>> You"? I"m getting paranoid.:-)
>>
>> Ken <on the lam>
>>
>> --
>> Kenneth Wolman
>> Proposal Development Department
>> Room SW334
>> Sarnoff Corporation
>> 609-734-2538
>>
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