Hi,
Sorry to hear that.
I, too, was accused of plagiarism for course-work towards an exam. It
was, apparently, too good to have been written by me. And look at me
now - ah, maybe I'm not the best example you could point to.
As Randolph says, we read stuff and it does influence our writing. It
has to. A clearer example might be bands first albums: you are are
often listening to pastiches of their record collections. Now a
pastiche is not a direct sample, however the dividing line is terribly
thin.
(I wonder if the first album thing holds true for poets first collections?)
Again, agreeing with Randolph, it would be good to ask yr teacher what
poems you allegedly plagiarised. You could compare and contrast and
turn the situation to yr advantage by making it a learning exercise.
Roger
On 6/20/05, judy prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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