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Title: How To Write A Political Poem Post by: Daniel Franklin on October 29, 2007, 04:50:48 AM To write a political poem you must include obfuscation, equivocation, prevarication, circumlocution, disssimulation, insinuation and speculation. A poem without these seven essential elements of a political poem would not be a political poem but some other form of literary chicanery. A political poem must always hullabaloo the hoipolloi by making things obscure, by using double-meaning language, by deviating from the truth, by using a large number of words to express an irrelevant idea or a fraudulent emotion, by concealing facts, intentions and opnions under some pretense or false appearance, by introducing deceptively deceiving deceitful thoughts, feelings, emotions and ideas in a covert stealthy way,
and by paraphrasing reality inconclusively with an avalanche of hocus pocus. To write a political poem you must earnestly engage in duplicity complicity. If you do not camouflage your denotations and connotations in a masquerade of mindnumbing mystical mysteriousness, you have not written a political poem but some other nonpolitical verse not even remotely similar to those politically poetical strategems closely reminiscent of the big con. Articles Source - Free Articles About the Author Larry Ziman publishes and co-edits The Great American Poetry Show, a poetry anthology open year-round to submissions of poetry in English on any subject and in any style,length and number to [email protected]. Check out the website athttp://www.tgaps.net |