AN ODE TO PSEUDO-INTELLECTUALS
By Doc
Let us praise these gregarious kith and kin whose
onus appears to be of a tutelage nature,
a voluminous quest
to irradiate our
vernacular stature,
to luxuriantly
masticate the great lack of trivialities
within our impalpable, languid street jargon.
Let us praise these magnanimous maestros while
they sink, with vehement raillery, their verbal
talons into the dense
necrosis of our minds:
lambasting turpitude
and mental lethargy
with incantations of irrevocable disdain
as we praise their latitudinarian souls.
Consider them not fey. Attempt not to efface
commiserated autointoxication.
They are not ignoble.
Titillated? Yes.
Sometimes pixilated.
But blatant incursions
can not adulterate our frugal imbroglio
as panegyrically we praise their pious oligarchy!
Whattahell, whattahell, whattahell! They mean well
and we should not snub these snobs because they mean well.
2006-07-21 15:56:23 · 9 answers · asked by Doc Watson 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I wrote this thing years ago as a light-hearted jab at several of my writer friends so please don't take this seriously.
You get extra points for finding the one misspelled word!
2006-07-21 15:58:33 · update #1
shakia, it was written for that reason. To make fun of writers who over-intellectualize.
2006-07-21 16:07:38 · update #2
If you intended to be funny, which I assume you did based on your pretentious use of language, then it is good.
2006-07-21 16:02:14 · answer #1 · answered by brian_hahn_32 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Top 10 Ways to Tell Poetry is Not Your Gig
10. That Poe guy is so, like, morbid, you know?
9. You think Ogden Nash is the greatest American poet.
8. You don't understand what Sylvia Plath was so bummed about.
(And no, it wasn't because her friends were Anne Sexton and Virginia Woolf)
7. You think "Yeats" rhymes with "Keats."
6. You often ask the question, "what is a meta for anyway?"
5. You think Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a porn star.
4. All the poetry you write (or like) consists of rhyming couplets.
3. You think Carl Sandburg was the Chicago Cubs' best second baseman ever.
2. The best poem you ever read was written by Dr. Seuss.
1. You commonly mistake use of a thesaurus for poetic talent.
2006-07-21 16:17:34 · answer #2 · answered by keats27 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't understand much of it. It may as well be written in a different language. What group of people actually use this vocabulary in every day life? Seriously, I want to know. Ever heard that you can just as easily use a $2 word for a $10 word.
Oh well, it was all fun and games right?
2006-07-21 16:03:31 · answer #3 · answered by shakia27 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did someone give you a vocabulary list to incorporate into your poem? That is the most pompous piece of crap I've ever read. I'm not trying to be mean, but seriously, if you're using that poem to study for the GRE, then I'd say you're all set. Remember the timeless advice: LESS IS MORE!
2006-07-21 16:06:49 · answer #4 · answered by Tessa ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-14 11:35:42 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pixelated(abstract)~It sounds at the beganing like an ape is writing it!
Blatant incursions have adulterated our frugal!
BUSH!
2006-07-21 16:16:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
autointoxication should be 2 words....
good poem tho, there are a lot of big words in there. nice job :)
2006-07-21 16:03:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I absolutely loved it.
2006-07-21 16:13:08 · answer #8 · answered by dasiavou 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brilliant! Please write more ;)
2006-07-21 16:03:02 · answer #9 · answered by KTKNZ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋