 Poetry: September 03, 2014 Issue [#6529] |
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This week: Forensic Poetry Edited by: Red Writing Hood <3  
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"Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."
Desmond Tutu
"That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong."
Christopher Buckley
"Poetry is a dignified way of screaming."
Vivian Shipley
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Forensic Poetry - What Makes Up This Genre of Poetry and Some Forms That Incorporate It.
Before researching forensic poetry, I thought forensics was only about gathering evidence in a CSI kind of manner. However, I soon discovered it's more gathering evidence to argue a case, which is where the name of the topic of this kind of genre poetry comes from.
Forensic poetry is any poetry form that incorporates an argument or a debate in some way or another. Because this is a genre poetry form, it can be combined with a poetry form that utilizes a particular standard of meter and/or rhyme. An example of this would be a pantoum poem that argues the benefits of regular flossing. It uses the standard format of a pantoum, as well as the topic of an argument. It essentially becomes a forensic pantoum poem.
The following are a couple poetry forms that fall under forensic poetry that we haven't covered yet.
Flyting
BRIEF HISTORY
Possibly Scottish in origin, this form is about 600 years old, and relies heavily on hyperbole.
MUST HAVES
- Topic/theme: argument or debate, and in this case an argument of insults. An example of this in our daily lives would be 'yo mama' playground insults.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET'S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Any number of stanzas, or length.
--Any rhyme.
--Any meter.
Pregunta
BRIEF HISTORY
Spanish in origin, has been around about 700 years, this form is a debate between two or more authors. The first author asks a question, and the next replies to said question. The second author would usually use the same formatting (example: if the first author used a sonnet, the second would respond in sonnet form).
MUST HAVES
- Topic/theme: Must include an argument or debate of some kind, even if it's only one side of a debate in answer to an opposing side-like the pregunta.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET'S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Any number of stanzas, syllables, or length-but the response usually follows the same as the questioning poet.
--Any rhyme-but the response usually follows the same as the questioning poet.
--Any meter-but the response usually follows the same as the questioning poet.
SOURCE NOTES:
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Ales Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. 1993.
Turco, Lewis. The Book of Forms. 3rd. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2000.
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Theme: Argument or debate.
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