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As the title of the contest states, this contest is about - PARODIES!

Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a parody one one of the following poems. The general rhyme scheme and meter should be the same as the poem selected. The total number of lines of the poem does not have to be the same. You may make yours shorter or longer. The subject matter is your choice. Being a parody, it should contain some similarity to the original in some way to make the reader know which poem you are mimicing. For example:

                  I think that I shall never see
                  A pest as horrid as a flea..

Or you may look up my Casey at the Bar listed in my contest poems. Multiple admissions are acceptable. New work, please. Three hundred hot little points to the best parody!!    

Fire and Ice - Robert Frost
Trees        - Joyce Kilmer
The Man in the Glass - Anon
Annabel Lee  _ E.A. Poe
The Men Who Didn't Fit in - Robert Service
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost
The Face on the Barroom Floor - Hugh Antoine D'Arcy

               Good Luck!!!!!!!!!!!

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on July 26, 2003
  • Rewards: Gold: 300
  • Final notes:

    Balladeer: My thanks to the few brave souls attempting this contest...you came up with some very innovative topics! Cinara gets the top spot for an incredibly touching poem in my estimation. I know that Angelseeker liked her hickey but I thought the way she handled her words and thoughts in her Fire and Ice was very powerful and thus the chalice goes to her with the final spot going to the fat ass of the Invisible Man, er, I mean IM's poem of the fat ass which certainly brought a lot of smiles to readers based on the comments. I'm giving out an unauthorized honorable mention to the nuker who took on a difficult poem and, with a lot of work, came up with a very innovative piece of writing which would have been worthy of a cup had it not been a reprint....anyway, nice going, nuke! Again, thank you all for joining in...I appreciate you :)

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  • InvisibleMan silver member
    July 19, 2003
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    Hey Balladeer!

    I'm thinking about entering your contest (if I can get passed this writer's block that has been killing me for the last week). I have a question. Do you want the ACTUAL number of syllables the original used per line or the cadent number? You know how sometimes we stretch or shorten the word rhythm to make things fit.

    I was looking at "The Man in the Glass" and the original poet missed a few syllables....some lines containing 11 syllables and some containing 12. So, I have been following the "errors" exactly, line by line, but wanted to make sure that is what you actually wanted.


  • Balladeer
    July 19, 2003
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    Very good eye, IM, and an excellent question. It's very interesting that, in that poem, there are indeed syllable variations, with the exception of the first line of each stanza, which contains 12. The interesting part is that, even with the variations, the poems reads perfectly smooth due to the construction. My answer would be this..no, you do not have to duplicate the exact number of syllables. You simply have to be sure it flows well with the variation. Actually I think I'll delete that requirement due to your excellent question.

    As a side note, this poem was written in anapestic form with an iambic foot leading the sentence when he wants to. The first line...

    when you GET what you WANT in your STRUG-gle for SELF

    is perfect anapestic.

    just GO to a MIR-ror and LOOK at yourSELF

    is an example of the iambic foot leading in the anapestic feet. That could have been corrected easily by using "you can" instead of "just" since that would fit the anapestic and solve the problem of the line being one syllable short....the author just didn't do it. The only other line where he made a glaring error was the second to the last line....

    but your FIN-al re-WARD will be the HEART-aches and TEARS

    The word "the" give the line one syllable too many and, more importantly, it kills the anapestic by placing three unaccented syllables together. It was not needed in the line and the guy just goofed up. If I were making a parody of this poem I would make it in anapestic, even in the lines where he didn't...but that's your choice.

    you may FOOL the whole WORLD down your PATH-way of YEARS
    and get PATS on the BUTT as you PASS
    but your FI-nal re-WARD will be ONE banged-up REAR
    from those JERKS who smacked YOU on the ASS!!

    Thanks for the question!


    Edited on Jul 19, 6:52 p.m. because ''.

  • InvisibleMan silver member
    July 20, 2003
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    hmmmm.....

    I feel RATHer conFLICTed by PAT on the ASS
    I assUME it was MEANT as a FRIEND
    but wont BEND in the SHOWer to disCOVer your POWer
    to MAKE the lines MEAT in the END

    So...we use a sasquatch approach (I AM BIG FOOT) and write about a jerk with smelly feet (I AM A PEST ICK FOOT)...got it! Thanks for explaining it (as I mumble to myself trying to look up the big words in my poetry for dummies book)

    (Backs out of room while keeping an eye on Balladeer who was WAY too interested in slapping guys on the ass.)


  • AngelSeeker silver member
    July 22, 2003
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    LOL this is as much fun as the contest. Wonder if I can write one?


  • AutoPilate
    July 24, 2003
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    D'oh! Too bad William Blake's "Tyger" wasn't in the list, I already did a parody of it! Oh well, maybe I'll give one of these a shot.


  • symitar Moderators member
    July 25, 2003
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    I am so glad I didn't try this one, I would have flopped sooooo bad! Hats off to all of you for doing this one, it was a toughie as far as I am concerned. All of you deserve to win!!!!!!!

  • AngelSeeker silver member
    July 26, 2003
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    Congratulations to the winners. With all the outstanding entries I was flattered to have my poem chosen to recieve a chalice. I really enjoyed this contest it was very inspiring.

    Patti

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