Has the time come that we may need to start putting 'invert
Has the time come that we may need to start putting 'inverted commas' around our poetry add a bibliography?
I would be interested to hear everyones opinion on this.
We exist in a world that is steeped in artistic and popular culture for those of us that care to look, read, listen, and write, watch etc etc. A poem comes from our imagination, our thoughts our emotions, which for someone who writes are triggered from ancient culture to popular culture. Sometimes, phrases and comments will reappear within what we write, that are not originally our own.
Who did they originally belong to, the person before that person that wrote them that we sometimes remember and sometimes don't? Do we need to start putting inverted commas around lines or phrases that someone else has wrote or has been noted saying, and references at the end of the poem as we are required to when writing academic papers.
If so, then what is poetry all about? Should we put inverted commas around the whole of our poem because the words have been used before?'
I would be interested to hear everyones opinion on this.
We exist in a world that is steeped in artistic and popular culture for those of us that care to look, read, listen, and write, watch etc etc. A poem comes from our imagination, our thoughts our emotions, which for someone who writes are triggered from ancient culture to popular culture. Sometimes, phrases and comments will reappear within what we write, that are not originally our own.
Who did they originally belong to, the person before that person that wrote them that we sometimes remember and sometimes don't? Do we need to start putting inverted commas around lines or phrases that someone else has wrote or has been noted saying, and references at the end of the poem as we are required to when writing academic papers.
If so, then what is poetry all about? Should we put inverted commas around the whole of our poem because the words have been used before?'
Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:27 pm
Sorry to go off on a tangent straight away Nicky but this reminded me of that wonderful Tom Lehrer song about plagiarising
http://www.lyricsdir.com/tom-lehrer-lobachevsky-lyrics.html
"Plagiarize
Let no one else's work evade your eyes
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize...." and so on
The short answer is that I don't think a brief use of another's happy phrase should be acknowledged or picked out. But anything that looks or feels like a 'chunk' rather than a mere phrase, should be acknowledged in some way.
Interesting topic. Where did you get the idea from? Borrow it from another website?
http://www.lyricsdir.com/tom-lehrer-lobachevsky-lyrics.html
"Plagiarize
Let no one else's work evade your eyes
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize...." and so on
The short answer is that I don't think a brief use of another's happy phrase should be acknowledged or picked out. But anything that looks or feels like a 'chunk' rather than a mere phrase, should be acknowledged in some way.
Interesting topic. Where did you get the idea from? Borrow it from another website?
Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:12 pm
Aha! I am not telling where I got it from.
Can't help myself, I will reveal all.
A little mermaid whispered it to me, when by chance I was strolling down the shore, of poetry and I sighed in utter dismay, when the sharks came swimming by.
Can't help myself, I will reveal all.
A little mermaid whispered it to me, when by chance I was strolling down the shore, of poetry and I sighed in utter dismay, when the sharks came swimming by.
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:17 am