[QUOTE=deathscreamingsheep]Just got my copy of "An Ode Less Travelled". So far I've found it can be hard work, but it's very comprehensive and it explains things well.[/QUOTE]
:) awesome. I agree... it's extremely hard work. But he does go through it well, it's just a matter of sticking with it.

I finally got some short fiction work done. I've been extremely lazy about fiction in a few months which is mildly scary since Creative writing's what I'm at uni for and I'm unmotivated about that whole side of things. Give it a read sometime. Hopefully, I can turn this into a larger work.

[url]http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11139329&postcount=31[/url]

Haven't managed to give it a proper look ATC, but it seems pretty good.

Hey, what happened to the "Lyric Game Fing"?

We let it die because it sucks.

Hmm, well, I thought it was cool.

I wrote a rap today and recorded it.

My friend is making a beat GarageBand on his mac.

Hawt....




im so sick
ill lay down this phat beat
and make yo lip
take a sip
from my knuckles, foo'
dont mess wif me
I ares coo'
coolers than you
cuz you know how I do
I suckapunch you in yo' shoe
just the sole, but it makes a hole
so big your foot falls through

MIDWEST, REP'SENT!

Lol. That was...semi-amusing.

I really like Say Anything...

Heh... on the subject of rap a mate of mine recorded two of Shakespeare's Sonnets over a garage beat. It wasn't badly done: though it was kinda hilarious hearing some big blinged up guy go "Yo, yo, whaddup... Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments..." I wish I still had the recording but he moved away and I lost my copy.

Hey, in my English class I just read [I]Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge[/I].

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !
A savage place ! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover !
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced :
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail :
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean :
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war !


The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves ;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice !

A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw :
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome ! those caves of ice !
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !
His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

It's still debated what the hell it means, but it's a pretty darn good poem.

[QUOTE=A_Perfect_Sonnet]We let it die because it sucks.[/QUOTE]
Indeed, pretty fugging lousy game that should dissapear.

You need to dissappear, LOZL!.

PS, Say Anything rules.

[quote]Hey, in my English class I just read Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

It's still debated what the hell it means, but it's a pretty darn good poem.[/quote]
Coleridge is fun. That poem was inspired by an opium dream. According to legend, he wasn't done there, but he got interrupted and then forgot the rest of his hallucination.

Just for conversation's sake, anyone here like Tiger Army?

no hahah

*Wonders where drumass04 went* Jeez...what the hell happened to him?

a little help
 

i have started about 4 months ago on writing and posting my songs taht i have written.

to anybody who has read my stuff, i just want to know how i can improve my writing. if in need of an example just ask and i will repost my False Hero's song for anyone to crit and look at. just trying to get my creative flare back up.

[QUOTE=A_Perfect_Sonnet]You need to dissappear, LOZL!.

PS, Say Anything rules.[/QUOTE]
shut up bitch i dont leik breight eyes u suk lul

...

Anyhow, Say anything is quite interesting, indeed.

No, I don't listen to tiger army, but I've read it's pretty decent punk.

And yes, I'm still internetless. ugh.

I think this new mutant! character is a ginormous moron.

Anybody want to send me some Joshua Fit for Battle over AIM?

I believe it's called psychobilly, but, whatever...labels...though, I like sorting my sh[I]i[/I]t out...its all way too...labeled. Anyway, it seems to me like something people on here might enjoy, so I was wondering.

[QUOTE=DeadReligion]I believe it's called psychobilly, but, whatever...labels...though, I like sorting my sh[I]i[/I]t out...its all way too...labeled. Anyway, it seems to me like something people on here might enjoy, so I was wondering.[/QUOTE]
Probably I only understood half of that sentence. :p

[QUOTE=MidnightHysteria]Coleridge is fun. That poem was inspired by an opium dream. According to legend, he wasn't done there, but he got interrupted and then forgot the rest of his hallucination.[/QUOTE]

That's really strange, after the first few lines I told myself that it sounds like this guy was on opium. It was a great poem though.

What poets or types of poetry are you guys mainly into?

I enjoy Countee Cullen, Sylvia Plath and Poe quite a bit.

Anne Sexton's poetry is more accessible than Plath's, I think, but I like both. Tulips is one of my favorite poems ever.

Truth.

I also love good 'ole Shakespeare, but I prefer his plays and poetic speeches (the Iambic Pentameter ones) than his actual poems.

Shakespeare, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelly, Keats, WB Yeats, James Joyce, Robert Browning and T.S. Elliot. One poet I hate: Carol Ann Duffy.

I'm not so much of a fan of Byron or really that many Romantics. I like them, but only in short doses.

Anyone heard of Federico Garcia Lorca?

Ah man, I've been looking for an in-road to this conversation for days now, and I'm just so out of my depth it's untrue.

*doesn't really enjoy poetry*

[I]The Whitsun Weddings[/I] by Philip Larkin I think is the only collection of poems (so far, I don't really read that much poetry) I can relate to in any real way.

Allow me Jason, allow me. Jack Prelutsky is my favorite poet, ever. Better than all those dead losers. Anyone who wants to disagree with me, be warned: You're an idiot.

I'm determined to find a poet whose work I enjoy by the end of this shift... (9 hours left... *sigh*) I shall start googling shortly.

Lol, APS and Jason. Heh, good ol' Keats, I like his stuff. Also, I can't stand Shakespeare. I hate all his writing with a fiery passion. Well, with the one expception of Macbeth.

Jason, I was just joking with that post. I thought everyone knew he was just a hack of a children's poet? Shell Silverstein is where it's at.

Ohhhh... I get jokes. :upset:

(Although that was a rather effective method of displaying the level of my poetic ignorance... :-\ )

I only know who he is because when I was younger, I listened to him every night before I went to bed. His voices is soothing.

Lol. Also I think you meant "his voice is soothing", APS.

Hey everyone,

I'm back to crit your asses into the next millenium. Unfortunately writing is still beyond me, but I'll just crit you all and make you feel really guilty so when I do start writing again you'll all crit me :p

Anyway, life's looking up again. Girlfriend's awesome, mum's getting re-married, and I have played drums 8 hours in the past 36 hours, t'is all good!!

Peace,
Tim

Yay, Timmy's back! BTW, Tim, what's your sn?

sn?

if you mean my msn; [email]drumass04@hotmail.com[/email]
if you mean my surname; Peacock

Right I'm going to find some lyrics to crit. I looked last night, and it seems as if the quality has gone downhill about 10miles in 2 weeks :(

But nevermind, I enjoy crit'in!

Tim