Sentence examples for bad verse from inspiring English sources
Whitwham recognises elements of his own younger self in Seth: a lad who went to Dylan gigs, read (and dressed like) Kerouac, and churned out reams of bad verse that his English teacher tolerated with some indulgence.
It may be one of the most dreadful poems ever written, worthy of inclusion in "The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse," a collection that Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published, in 1930, to universal delight.
But not only are there evidently cheerful and long-lived poets; think of the mountains of bad verse written by unhappy, unremembered souls made even unhappier by their lack of poetic ability.
And mostly, wonderfully, it works; occasionally, the bullet-point lists and floating phrases read like bad verse or average rock lyrics, but Newman has a liltingly poetic rhythm, an uncanny ear for dialogue and a nicely bathetic sense of comic timing.
As for poetry, Philodemus thinks that, while there is no natural criterion of good verse, there are 'conceptions' (ennoiai, here, apparently the same as prolêpseis) of good and bad verse, which allow a universal judgment (koinê krisis) of poetry based on criteria which exist, whether or not one recognizes them.
Stereogum's Tom Breihan criticized Jay-Z's "pretty bad" verse in the song.
He felt the work was an example of what he described as "good bad poetry"; verse which is essentially vulgar, yet undeniably seductive and "a sign of the emotional overlap between the intellectual and the ordinary man".
I protested to the director, and the posters were removed – not because of the bad verses, but because Greenpeace hadn't paid for the advertising space.
He quotes from a hapless poetaster called Thomas Tusser to show us what bad Renaissance verse can look like.
When someone at Alfred A. Knopf sought his opinion of one of its forthcoming releases, he replied: "The novel reminds me of a little boy masturbating in a closet and calling out his reactions in bad blank verse".
You'd be hard-pressed to find a bad Mr Eazi verse, and it's no different on Dance for Me, during which he hops on as a guest vocalist to usher in Ghanaian rapper Eugy.
