I wrote this poem in college just as a fun way to point out some crazy rules and parts of speech of English. See if you can figure out all the different rules I break or parts of speech I use as I state them...
English Language
by Michael Brown
The English language makes me mad, it's so frustrating
People speak their own way to make the point they are stating
People always use words and phrases way over my head
They use figures of speech, thinking I should know what they've said
I get mad whenever people use malapropisms
Because it creates chasms; I mean schisms
Between people who understand and those who don't
I've never liked when people use contractions, and I won't
People always try to be clever, but I've got some ideas
I'm gonna shush people when they use onomatopoeias
And any time I hear people using hyperbole
I'm gonna kick them from here to Italy
To me that's just as stupid as an inclusio or a simile
Which is like a poet writing a quatrain; it's silly to me
People use double-superlatives and think they're the bestest
People pause to create their puns; we've gotta rest this
To state the meaning of a word may be people's intention
But it seems nobody knows how to give a definition
And I can't but become angry when I hear conjunctions
However, they are often used; yet, not many know their functions
Alliteration constantly causes craziness to captivate me
And it seems people choose to use adverbs innately
People are always making allusions to different things
It's just like what the song says that that one dude sings
If people use the conditional, then that is very bad
If they're redundant, verbose, and superfluous, I get mad
People should pay their dues if they choose to use internal rhyme
Especially when they can't rhyme words most of the time
If I were to use the subjunctive, I would be mad at me
Most don't understand the reflexive, which makes me angry
Nobody gets more frustrated at elliptical clauses than I
As opposed to assonance, which I find lights up my eyes
But I don't like it when people are comparing and contrasting
Or using run-on sentences their lengths are everlasting
To be using an infinitive is to be doing something dumb
Putting prepositions at ends of sentences, where did that come from?
Spoonerisms aren't too bad because they lake me maugh
Too many people talk in statistics; I think it's more than half
People try to show they're smart by giving a means
They also tend to generalize; this describes all teens
People use certain slang in different regions; they think it's rad
They think that it's nifty, but it makes me wicked mad
I hate it with a passion when I hear a contradiction
I wish everyone made them; at least, that's my conviction
I hate it whenever people use confabulation
Because I have never been one to give a fabrication
I get mad whenever people talk in clichés
It's not the end of the world, but it's dumb anyways
Just like when people put an "s" where it doesn't belong
Or people who are long-winded and drag things along
People who make up words make me angrified
They claim poetic license, but it still burns me inside
But most of all I hate when people don't finish a poem


4 comments:
WOW! That was quite the poem. I have no clue what a fraction of those terms mean right now at the age of 25 let alone when I was in high school. I did get a little chuckle out of the ones that I did understand though. Your English teachers must have loved you.
Okay Leah, be honest. Only a fraction?
Your right, I meant that I only know what a fraction of the terms were
What the heck are monopropisums? I don't have a dictonary handy. Tell me what you ment on sunday.
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