PARODY
Using a writer's style to take the micky.out of a poet or other writer
anoldmansinging
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Posted At: 04/07/2009 11:35:17
We've tried this before, but we've got almost a new generation of posters.
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anoldmansinging
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Posted At: 04/07/2009 11:43:39
Morte d'Arthur, with just a touch of Spooner.
"The bold Sir Bedevere uplifted him
And bore him to a chapel nigh the field...
On one side lay the Ocean, and on one
Lay a great water..."
And I can tell you he was quite a weight.
It's just as well the chapel wasn't far,
Or I'd have dropped him, nearly didn't make it,
But got there in the end while he went on
And on about Excalibur's disposal
By throwing in the near-by lake or mere
(as if the Council's guidelines weren't enough.
No swords on Thursdays, unless it's at the dump)..
That bloody sword was worth a lot of dosh
Twice did I try to fake the throw, but Arthur
Just sent me back, and on the flaming third
Am arm clothed in white samite deigned to take it.
And then, would you believe it, up the mere
There came a barge, all painted funeral black,
Three wailing maidens "sweating at the oar",
To take him off to royal Avalon.
Which left me looking rather like a prune.
He took the chance to say a few more words,
What time the barge was carried by the stream
Towards the quiet weir. The wailing maidens
Paid no attention, stripped his clanking mail,
Administered first aid. The gentle stream
Had reached the danger point, the warning notice
That said "GO NOT BEYOND OR YOU'LL TIP OVER"!
They paid no heed, and simply went on wailing,
And were subnerged and took with them King Arthur,
And, on the weir, de-mailing died away.
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Hermita
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Posted At: 04/07/2009 13:13:02
.....'On the weir, de-mailing, died away' .........indeed! Whatever next.
You've pressed another button, Roy. I'm a parody freak. But the only trouble with parody is a prerequisite that the reader knows the original, or all is wasted. My Tennyson ain't all it might be, I fear, I was de-idyllised at school and I never properly recovered. (Mind, I've done a spoof on 'Locksley Hall', but who the dickens knows Locksley Hall, other than the few famous lines it carries? ) Vole, now, he is the one for parodies. (Hey, Vole! VOLE!! Where are you? Come in, Vole, do!)
Still, by way of showing willing, how about a spot of Kilmer.............
I think that I will never see
My husband busy as a bee.
Embarks on jobs with zeal and zest -
Five minutes later takes a rest,
Goes off and pours himself a drink
And hides behind the Football Pink.
So I must be the one to wear
Dulux emulsion in my hair,
Sump oil from fingertip to wrist,
And bruises where the hammer missed.
OK, at times he's heaps of fun,
But only I can get things done.
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anoldmansinging
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Posted At: 04/07/2009 14:37:13
Hermita,
You're quite right. It's almost cerrtainly struck you that when a really well known set of words ("The Church's one foundation" comes to mind), we're a little handicapped, inasmuch as we'd have to compete with the best-known parodies, which are obscene. I used to have a copy of Amy Woodford-Finden's Indian Love Lyrics, on which there was a stern injunction against parodies. I have often wondered what they might be like. Perhaps Google ...?
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anoldmansinging
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Posted At: 05/07/2009 15:42:50
Marigolds, after Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a ghost
That haunts the Scottish undergrowth,
To where the flowers that charm me most
Were brought by someone from Arbroath.
To such a place these flowers are foreign.
He must have brought seeds in his sporran.
Now there they stand, withstand the breeze
With sturdy orange fortitude,
And I admire such flowers as these,
Although there's something rather crude
About the blooms which glow and gleam
And furnish me my favourite dream.
I know their smell is rather coarse,
(I can't avoid a minor stricture)
But memory (no smell, perforce)
Paints no such odorif'rous picture.
And then my heart such plearure holds,
It dances with the marigolds.
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pattiboo
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Posted At: 05/07/2009 17:16:19
Roy such is the effect you have on me I actually googled plearure just in case it wasn't a typing error. The word did come up as in dj plearure ,the Lab niteclub in brooklyn, serat also found the word pleasure not a good one to put in your browser, no what I mean ? 
As to the poem I am still trying to come up with a parody myself but so far it eludes me, so for now shall just enjoy reading yours... |
pattiboo
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Posted At: 06/07/2009 06:05:39
IF
If you can keep your job when all around you
Are losing there’s and blaming it on you,
if you can keep your head when they accuse you,
And act as though each word you say is true;
If you can smile and not grow tired of smiling.
Or when you’re shouted at, don’t raise your voice,
Or when reviled, continue with beguiling,
They’ll understand you’re really their best choice:
If you have schemed – all commonsense forsaking
If you have lied – and lied and lied again
If you can claim no problems of your making
Convince them all that others are to blame,
If you promote men- even though they fail you
And claim in that there’s nothing sinister,
You’ll be the man, and everyone will hail you
And what is more you’ll stay Prime minister.
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anoldmansinging
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Posted At: 06/07/2009 09:43:49
CIGAR!
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pattiboo
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Posted At: 06/07/2009 17:06:18
An attempt to parody the poem of the same title by Sir Walter Scott.
Patriotism
Breaths there the man, who full of pride,
All accusations has decried,
That he to ruin brought this land.
Whose thoughts, when inward they have turned,
Have never doubted nor yet spurned
The chosen path his heart has planned.
If such their breath, why let him stay?
He’s unelected, had his day;
Great things he promised, great his claim,
Prosperity would come again;
Despite those pledges we all know
The jobs decrease, the dole queues grow.
Large grows the pension in his pot
While we must work until we drop.
Let him depart his time has come
Un- mourned, dishonoured and unsung.
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