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SURREALIST ENGLISH POEMS
Lancillotta:
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SURREALIST ENGLISH POEMS
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Hello,
I need for my students some surrealist English poems (really English, not treanslated from French).
They should be quite short and easy .
It �s difficult to find something useful surfing the internet, but perhaps, native speakers may have English books with interesting poems.
I can �t buy now books from Amazon because I should wait too long to have them.
Thanks in advance,
Sabrina
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21 May 2010
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Homeless Turtle
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What about this? It �s one of my favorites...
Kenneth Patchen
Writer and Artist, I have protested every War as meaningless falsity through my life and after life. For Miriam, always.
Death Will Amuse Them
A little girl was given a new toy That needed no winding and would never run down As even the best of everything will
And all day she played with it Following happily over the floor of heaven Until finally it rolled to the feet of God Himself
Who said: "You must give it back now." Then He pointed down at two soldiers who were staring up Hopefully
"You see, it is a very popular toy." And He tossed it down to them Whose eyes would stare up in earnest when they touched it.
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21 May 2010
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Lancillotta:
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THANKS dear Homless Turtle;
I like it and I �m sure my students will love it too!
THANKS THANKS THANKS
FOR YOUR HELP!
Sincerely
Sabrina |
21 May 2010
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colibrita
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Hi Sabrina, what exactly do you mean by surrealist? do you mean like nonsensical, bizarre?
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21 May 2010
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colibrita
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Something like "the owl and the pussycat" perhaps? by Edward Lear
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21 May 2010
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almaz
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As I was coming down the stair I met a man who wasn �t there He wasn �t there again today I wish that he would go away! |
21 May 2010
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Lancillotta:
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Thanks for all you replies!
Thanks again!
Sabrina |
21 May 2010
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almaz
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How about A Book of Surrealist Games, compiled by Alastair Brotchie (Shambhala,1995)? �The Exquisite Corpse � is a useful chain game/chain poem, for example. Chain poems make good surrealist texts... |
21 May 2010
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