Re: Poetry and Plagiarism

["Dr. Dana McDougald" <dmcdouga@COE.UGA.EDU>]

This is a good idea.  Also, I'll bet if teachers would have the students
write their poetry while in class, it couldn't be plagiarized.

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Janice Webb wrote:

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> It seems to me that this is a common request, especially among high school
> librarians.  It might be a good idea to at least evaluate Columbia Granger's
> World of Poetry Online.  A 30-day free trial is available to public
> libraries, school libraries, and universities.  Their URL is
> http://www.columbiagrangers.org/
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
> Janice Webb
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> Betty-Sarver -DEC wrote:
>
> > An English teacher in my building is looking for information on a poem
> > that a student turned in as his own, but that the teacher believes was
> > plagiarized.  I have looked unsuccessfully to find the poem, and thought
> > of all of the experts I have only a  keyboard's length away.  Can someone
> > help?  Here is the poem:
> >
> > A POEM IS A CITY
> >
> > A poem is a city filled with streets and sewers
> > Filled with saints, heroes, beggars, madmen,
> > Filled with banality and booze,
> > Filled with rain and thunder and periods of
> > Draught, a poem is a city at war,
> > A poem is a city asking a clock why,
> > A poem is a city burning,
> > A poem is a city under guns
> > Its barbershops filled with cynical drunks,
> > A poem is a city where god rides naked
> > Through the streets like Lady Godiva,
> > Where dogs bark at night, and chase away
> > The flag; a poem is a city of poets,
> > Most of them quite similar
> > And envious and bitter...
> > A poem is this city now,
> > 50 miles from nowhere,
> > 9:09 in the morning,
> > The taste of liquor and cigarettes,
> > No police, no lovers, walking the streets,
> > This poem, this city, closing its doors,
> > Barricaded, almost empty,
> > Mournful without tears, aging without pity,
> > The hardrock mountains,
> > The ocean like a lavender flame,
> > A moon destitute of greatness,
> > A small music from broken windows...
> >
> > A poem is a city, a poem is a nation,
> > A poem is the world.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Betty Sarver
> > Teacher Librarian
> > Decatur High School
> > (253) 945-5210
> >
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