Found poetry

Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them (a literary equivalent of a collage) by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning. The resulting poem can be defined as either treated: changed in a profound and systematic manner; or untreated: virtually unchanged from the order, syntax and meaning of the poem.Hence no force, however great,can stretch a cord, however fine,into a horizontal linewhich is accurately straight.As we know,There are known knowns.There are things we know we know.We also knowThere are known unknowns.That is to sayWe know there are some thingsWe do not know.But there are also unknown unknowns,The ones we don't knowWe don't know.'The Man in the Moon'The Yankees have had a traumatic four days.Actually five days.That terrible crash with Thurman Munson.To go through all that agony,And then today,You and I along with the rest of the teamFlew to Canton for the services,And the family...Very upset.You know, it might,It might sound a little corny.But we have the most beautiful full moon tonight.And the crowd,Enjoying whatever is going on right now.They say it might sound corny,But to me it's like some kind of a,Like an omen.Both the moon and Thurman Munson,Both ascending up into heaven.I just can't get it out of my mind.I just saw the full moon,And it just reminded me of Thurman Munson,And that's it. Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them (a literary equivalent of a collage) by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning. The resulting poem can be defined as either treated: changed in a profound and systematic manner; or untreated: virtually unchanged from the order, syntax and meaning of the poem. The form was popularised by comedian Dave Gorman, who would include a found poem compiled from internet comments around a topical theme in every episode of his television show, Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish. The concept of found poetry is closely connected to the revision of the concept of authorship in the 20th century, (as John Hollander put it, 'anyone may 'find' a text; the poet is he who names it, 'Text'') and its first known use was in 1966. Types of common forms and practices of found poetry include free form excerpting and remixing, erasure, cento and cut-up. Marquive Stenzel describes the Dadaism movement with its readymade philosophy as a predecessor for the practice that later became found poetry. Dadaists like Duchamp placed everyday practical objects in an environment that was aesthetic and in so doing called into question that object as art, the observer, the aesthetic environment and the definition of what is art. Stylistically, found poetry is similar to the visual art of 'appropriation' in which two- and three-dimensional art is created from recycled items, giving ordinary/commercial things new meaning when put within a new context in unexpected combinations or juxtapositions. An example of found poetry appeared in William Whewell's 'An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics': In 2003, Slate writer Hart Seely found poetry in the speeches and news briefings of Donald Rumsfeld. In a transcript of a Department of Defense news briefing from February 12, 2002, Rumsfeld ruminated on 'The Unknown': Hart Seely published Rumsfeld's poetry in the book, Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld (2003). American composer Phil Kline set Rumsfeld's lyrics to music in 'Rumsfeld's Songs', a song cycle released on Zippo Songs (2004). Pianist Bryant Kong also used Rumsfeld's lyrics on his release 'Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld'. In 2009, on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, the talk show host twice asked actor William Shatner to deliver the written words of former Alaskan Governor and Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin in the style of beat poetry. Shatner performed Palin's farewell speech on July 27, and several of her tweets on July 29. Shatner was supported by a bongo player and contrabassist.