"Found Poetry"
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"Found" Poetry can be considered "the literary equivalent of collage", according to www.poets.org as it is a poetic form that draws upon a variety of prose forms -- essays, articles, speeches, advertisements. The writer takes care to select nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and powerful phrases, then arranges them meaningfully, utilizing white space, line breaks and poetic techniques such as alliteration, assonance, and repetition.
We developed found poems based on the prose we discovered in The Camosun publications from 1914-1918 -- prose that we felt contained powerful images, ideas, and feelings. From these selections, we developed poems that we hope help to capture an idea, mood or picture.
Below are the original Camosun articles and our poems we "found" within them. Enjoy reading as well as listening to our poems by clicking the audio version beside the title.
We developed found poems based on the prose we discovered in The Camosun publications from 1914-1918 -- prose that we felt contained powerful images, ideas, and feelings. From these selections, we developed poems that we hope help to capture an idea, mood or picture.
Below are the original Camosun articles and our poems we "found" within them. Enjoy reading as well as listening to our poems by clicking the audio version beside the title.
Our Boys, December 1916Our old V.H.S. boys
Crippled with years or infirmities Limping along with some share of our country's burden We are at best but little ants. Christmas parcels and greetings arrive "Carry on!" as the Right Honorable David Lloyd George expresses it. Sacrifice, service, as the sun was setting over the western skies Youth, vigour, enduring cheerfully in this terrible hour. - Ms. Burleson |
Dowler Fights for the FreeDrafted to France.
Took part in the famous attack on Vimy Ridge. He fell. Fell leading his company in that vigorous onslaught. Now he lies in a military cemetery allotted for heroes. Dowler possessed a winning personality. Be truly said, “None knew but to love him.” In honour of his name, the High School Campus shall put forth its leaves. His memory kept green in the city of his birth. For the preservation of the free. - By Krysteena White |