Ezri Dax Sporkbender
Join date : 2010-02-02 Location : Stuck in a timewarp.
| Subject: Godawful DS9 poem. Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:31 pm | |
| This really stupid delightful little poem were actually snarked by the original elite Godawful team. Somber is thre Night http://trekfanfiction.net/fanfic.php?f=00000000368 There is three verses, and this is the first. - Quote :
- Somber is the night
Death leans to our right Deadly weapons shell toward the black. Terror is the name of the rack. Nonsensical much? | |
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spoonhead75 Sporkbender
Join date : 2010-01-02 Age : 48
| Subject: Re: Godawful DS9 poem. Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:10 pm | |
| Wow - 12 lines and only 6 rhyme. Makes me wonder: Is there a hidden meaning? Did the author get bored with his own poem and forgot about rhyming? Or did he feel so deeply with his supposed Bajoran poet, that he expressed his grief by not-rhyming? - Quote :
4 rack : here torture 8 soft : effeminate Huh? Am I missing something? | |
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Vespers Sporkbender
Join date : 2010-01-25 Age : 33 Location : I HAVE A DORM
| Subject: Re: Godawful DS9 poem. Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:25 pm | |
| - klotterbeck wrote:
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4 rack : here torture 8 soft : effeminate Huh? Am I missing something? I think those are supposed to be footnotes, indicating that by "rack" they meant "torture" and by "soft", "effeminate". Because the reader doesn't know what a "rack" is, or something. | |
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spoonhead75 Sporkbender
Join date : 2010-01-02 Age : 48
| Subject: Re: Godawful DS9 poem. Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:16 am | |
| - Vespers wrote:
- klotterbeck wrote:
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4 rack : here torture 8 soft : effeminate Huh? Am I missing something? I think those are supposed to be footnotes, indicating that by "rack" they meant "torture" and by "soft", "effeminate". Because the reader doesn't know what a "rack" is, or something. Yes. Or something. But why? | |
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Vespers Sporkbender
Join date : 2010-01-25 Age : 33 Location : I HAVE A DORM
| Subject: Re: Godawful DS9 poem. Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:59 am | |
| - klotterbeck wrote:
Yes. Or something. But why? I'm guessing it's misguided pretentiousness--they think having footnotes is a mark of good poetry because that's what poetry has in textbooks? | |
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spoonhead75 Sporkbender
Join date : 2010-01-02 Age : 48
| Subject: Re: Godawful DS9 poem. Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:58 am | |
| I guess that's possible. Or maybe it's supposed to be some Bajoran idiom that got lost in the supposed translation.
Along with half of the rhymes. Why did he bother with rhyming in the first half at all? | |
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Rabid Badger And This is Why I Need Medication
Join date : 2009-06-10
| Subject: Re: Godawful DS9 poem. Fri Feb 12, 2010 7:32 pm | |
| Why is death leaning towards the right? He always struck me more as a liberal than a conservative. | |
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