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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Billy Collins Revival #137626 01/22/2005 1:49 AM Joined: May 2002 Posts: 1,529 Aladamnbama the most watered s... themilum veteran themilum veteran Joined: May 2002 Posts: 1,529 Aladamnbama the most watered s... As poet laruate of the US Billy Collins has singlehandly turned the direction of contemporary American poetry from psuedo-heavy beat streettalk into a direct and unpretentious poetry that is fun for everyone. Here is one such from an anthology of short poems compiled by Billy Collins. Not bad, but not the best, but chosen by me because it is about English grammar. Grammar Lesson A noun's a thing. A verb's the thing it does. An adjective is what describes the noun. In "The can of beets is filled with purple fuzz" of and with are prepositions. The's an article. a can's a noun. a noun's a thing. A verb's the thing it does. A can can roll- or not. What isn't was or might be. might meaning not yet known. "Our can of beets is filled with purple fuzz" is present tense. While words like our and us are pronouns- i.e. it is mouldy,they are icky brown. A noun's a thing. a verb's the thing it does. is is a helping verb, It helps because filled isn't a full verb.Can's what our owns in "Our can of beets is filled with purple fuzz" See? There's almost nothing to it. Just memorize these rules...or write them down! A noun's a thing. a verb's the thing it does. The can of beets is filled with purple fuzz. ______________________________________ Steve Kowit Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Billy Collins Revival #137627 01/22/2005 11:07 AM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Oversimplification of the complex, the poem is still a sweet little plum! Thanks, Milo. I'll have my kids copy it out. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Billy Collins Revival #137628 01/22/2005 3:19 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-more.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Billy Collins Revival #137629 01/22/2005 3:28 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass "former poet laureate" so who is it now? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Billy Collins Revival #137630 01/22/2005 3:35 PM Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 95 New Hampshire AniamL journeyman AniamL journeyman Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 95 New Hampshire I'm pretty sure Billy Collins came and read at my school Wednesday. I didn't hear about it, though, until yesterday. Correction: he's coming this Wednesday. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Billy Collins Revival #137631 01/22/2005 8:04 PM Joined: May 2002 Posts: 1,529 Aladamnbama the most watered s... themilum veteran themilum veteran Joined: May 2002 Posts: 1,529 Aladamnbama the most watered s... "former poet laureate" so who is it now? You got me tswum, maybe Billy got a real job and quit. To replace him I would vote for... Maverick Plutarch Puff Daddy But not necessarily in that order. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Who is it now? #137632 01/23/2005 9:05 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Ted Kooser. And before that, Louise Glück. I'd never heard of either. Read more about it: http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Billy Collins Revival #137633 01/26/2005 12:06 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 4,189 Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... I love Billy Collins. He sticks out like a breath of fresh air from all the stuffy academic trifle. I saw him present his work at the Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival a few years back, and it was a delightful and inspiring experience. For all his stature humor is one of his favorite tools, and he uses it liberally throughout his work....he's an academic who keeps the academics down, iof you will. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Billy Collins Revival #137634 01/26/2005 10:20 AM Joined: May 2002 Posts: 1,529 Aladamnbama the most watered s... themilum veteran themilum veteran Joined: May 2002 Posts: 1,529 Aladamnbama the most watered s... Is there an echo in this room? That is what I would have said, Whitman, if I had said it. How's tricks, Whit? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Billy Collins Revival #137635 01/26/2005 10:45 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Billy Collins: the PBR of poets. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Billy Collins Revival #137636 01/26/2005 11:10 AM Joined: May 2002 Posts: 1,529 Aladamnbama the most watered s... themilum veteran themilum veteran Joined: May 2002 Posts: 1,529 Aladamnbama the most watered s... Dang it Faldage, get back in your suit. You know, the dull grey latinate one with the dusty lapels. But just when I think that you have said the most obscure thing ever... you keep on talking. And leave me laughing and rolling on the floor. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Billy Collins Revival #137637 01/27/2005 11:46 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 the dull grey latinate one If you think: A sonnet has sixteen lines The second doesn't rhyme with the first The third is the worst the fourth is filled with mines … is poetry perhaps that's why you think that PBR is beer. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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