Wats a vogon poetry?

Question

I wrote a poem and asked people to rate it.One of dem wrote back...
I havnt read vogon poetry for ages thankfully.

Answer 1

Erm.. That person was insulting your poetry, I'm afraid. It's a reference to the 'Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy' by Douglas Adams, where the Vogons are a type of alien that are awful poets. =/
It's actually a very good book if you're into sci-fi/humor..

Answer 2

Watch The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy

Answer 3

Listening to it is an experience similar to torture as demonstrated when Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are forced to listen to the Vogon captain's poetry prior to being thrown out of an airlock.

Answer 4

Wow that's insulting!!!!!!!!! (it wasn't me, was it, I hope not!!!)

The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy states that: Vogon poetry is of course the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem 'Ode to a small lump of green putty I found in my armpit one midsummer morning' four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging, and the President of the mid-galactic arts nobbling council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off.
Grunthos is reported to have been 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his twelve-book epic entitled 'my favourite bathtime gurgles' when his own major intestine, in a desperate bid to save life and civilisation, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England in the destruction of the planet Earth.


A piece of Vogon Poetry:

O freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me,
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee,
My foonting turlingdrones,
And hooptiously drangle me
with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts
with my blurglecruncheon,
see if I don't.

Answer 5

That guy apologises.

But poetry doesn't have to rhyme, and there were grammatical errors in it. A well-written piece of poetry should be perfect, every word the perfect one, in the correct place.

A week ago, empty
numb and unknowing,
your sun lit my sky, 'til you set.
This night sits too long, too cold, too dark.

Come, I pray, burn me again!



How was that, straight off the top of my head?

Answer 6

Read "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" a wonderfully funny sci-fi romp through the universe, by Douglas Adams.... you'll be glad you did.

Answer 7

If YOU like wot ya wrote, please don't take ANY notice --------- that was an insult (as others have explained) ---------- your poetry is very personal to you and is v hurtful when criticised - remember, this is just ONE person who may have been answering Qz in a bad mood or sumat - please don't let it get to ya, ok

I bet a lot of other people would like it, just hold onto your confidence about your writing!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 8

the person who rated your poem was being insulting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogon_poetry

i thought your poem was alright ... i don't like poetry as a rule, but that guy was just rude

Answer 9

confusing factor. look onto google and yahoo. just that could actually help!

Answer 10

"O freddled gruntbuggly ..."