I need help with Poetry?

Question

I'm writing a found poem for my english class and its due tomorrow a found poem is a poem you find online then add in lines between the original lines and I can't find any good sites!!!! So if you know any good sites for writing a found poem tell me what they are or tell me a poem that you know, it has to be at least 10 lines and when I add in the in-between lines it should be about 20. Please Help this is an easy 10 points!

Answer 1

If you write poetry then you want it to be your original. Think of words that pertain to the topic you want to write your poem about. For example : Love.
Collect the words: loving, beautiful, wonderful, freedom, kindhearted, magnificent, rainbow colored, etc.

Now look for rhyming words to those words and see if you can make a poem from that.

If that don't work for you then think of something that has happened to you in life pertaining to the poem's title. Then write down the words that come to mind. Then find rhyming words to it.

If that helps good. If not then tell me your topic in email and I try to tell you what I would write.

You can go look up a poem online but that would not be original from you. That would be called plagiarism in college and I know I been to college.

I don't mind helping so email me if you need more help.

Answer 2

I think you must have misunderstood the assignment. If you pluck another poet's work off the Internet and add a few lines of your own, that's not "found poetry." That's plagiarism.

A found poem is something that was not intended as a poem by the original writer. Maybe it's an excerpt from a politician's speech. Maybe it's a recipe from a cookbook or the assembly instructions that come with a piece of kit furniture, or a bunch of clues from a crossword puzzle, or words from a news story or an advertisement. The poet rearranges those words on the page into the lines of a poem, usually in a way that highlights something about the words that may not have been noticed or intended by the original author or speaker. (The original source is always credited.) And, yes, the poet often adds words to the original material.

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

Answer 3

To my knowledge a found poem is when you take a poem or excerpt as is and you re-arrange the words to create your own. May 2007 has changed the definition in any event. Back when I was in college I had to write a found poem. I used a poem by Zora Neal Hurston

“Now women forget all those things they don’t want to remember and remember everything they don’t want to forget the dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly”

Zora Neale Hurston-Their Eyes Were Watching God


Now remember and don’t forget
The truth is...
WOMEN
Don’t forget

All the things
They want
And want to do

They remember everything
They dream accordingly
Then act
to those things


Not the best but hey I gave it a good go.

As for a site, there are many. I would suggest just typing in the name of a poet you like or have read and take it from there. You will find a poem in no time :)

Good Luck

earth

Answer 4

Ummm... pick a poem, any poem. It's not hard.

I recommend:
http://celtic.benderweb.net/cr/cr20.html (by Christina Rossetti)
and
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/719774.html (by Arthur Rimbaud)

Answer 5

poetry.com is bom
or i gusse it's good

Answer 6

poetry.com is pretty good