The Over-Regulation of Poetry Echoes Deeply Online

by Jonathan Jewell   Mar 4, 2021


Unless we address
this first test
Of our Syntax and Semantics,
The next case
we will face will be
An onslaught
On our ***THOUGHT***
Through Spelling, Discourse and Pragmatics!

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You can't use more than 64 characters for a title, so I couldn't add the poem's alternative title:

'A response to the unreasonable demands of the poems-and-quotes.com site's use of technological mandating of the completion of certain form fields before the submission of poems can be completed.'

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  • 3 years ago

    by Everlasting

    64 characters? I don’t think I have ever tried to submit a title that long...

    • 3 years ago

      by Jonathan Jewell

      It's actually a kind of 'echo' of the short/full title of the play 'Marat/Sade' by Peter Weiss. The full title though is: 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade', or (I'm told, I don't speak German): Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade)...as I said, I don't speak German, but that does 'look' German to me. Apologies to native speakers if that's not right!

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