Found poetry is the rearrangement of words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages that are taken from other sources and reframed as poetry by changes in spacing and/or lines (and consequently meaning), or by altering the text by additions and/or deletions. The resulting poem can be defined as "treated" (changed in a profound and systematic manner) or "untreated" (conserving virtually the same order, syntax and meaning as in the original). For other uses, see Word (disambiguation). ... Look up phrase in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Passages is a musical album in the style of chamber music co-composed by Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass and released in 1990 by RCA Victor. ... Poetry (ancient Greek: poieo = create) is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. ...

The first major example of the extended use of found poetry is Isidore Ducasse's Poesies.

The creation of found poetry requires the poet to draw upon not only mental creativity but his or her own unconscious attitude regarding the nature of language. Structurally, it can sometimes be similar to the process of composing a visual collage. Stylistically, it is similar to the visual art of "appropriation" in which two- and three-dimensional art is created from recycled items, giving ordinary/commercial things new meaning when put within a new context in unexpected combinations or juxtapositions. Appropriation art often plays upon a double-edged meaning, wherein the object's new artistic meaning makes a political or philosophical comment on its original purpose, and the same can be said for the way 'found poetry' can contain clever wordplay or evoke ironic contradictions in the way we use language. The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... This article is about the philosophical concept of Art. ...

An example of found poetry appeared in William Whewell’s "Middle Treatise on Mechanics": William Whewell In later life William Whewell (May 24, 1794 – March 6, 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science. ...

"And hence no force, however great,

can stretch a cord, however fine,

into a horizontal line

that shall be absolutely straight."

though when it was pointed out to him, an unamused Whewell changed the wording in the next edition. ^[1], ^[2] Ironically, this quatrain remains much better known than any of Whewell's intentional poetry. A quatrain is a poem or a stanza within a poem that consists of four lines. ...

In the web era, taking words from spam e-mail (and recently 419 scam e-mail) and turning it into poetry has a long history, dating back to the late 1990s. SatireWire's contest [1] which ran in 2000 and 2001 is one of the most well-known examples. This article is about electronic spam. ... An advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance relatively small sums of money in the hope of realizing a much larger gain. ... From 1999 to 2002, SatireWire was one of the most popular humor websites on the Internet. ...

In 2003, the press and various online communities decided they had found poetry in the speeches and news briefings of Donald Rumsfeld; this example, The Unknown being the most often cited: Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) is a U.S. Republican politician and businessman, who was the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977, and the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. ...

The Unknown

As we know,

There are known knowns.

There are things we know we know.

We also know

There are known unknowns.

That is to say

We know there are some things

We do not know.

But there are also unknown unknowns,

The ones we don't know

We don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld, Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing (later collected by Hart Seely in Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld (ISBN 0743255976))

The book O Holy Cow!: The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto, edited by Tom Peyer and Hart Seely, is made entirely of found poetry taken word for word from broadcasts of Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto. Examples include: In decision analysis, an unknown unknown, often shortened to unk-unk, is an uncertainty that is unanticipated and, hence, unaccounted for in a formal decision model. ... In decision analysis, an unknown unknown, often shortened to unk-unk, is an uncertainty that is unanticipated and, hence, unaccounted for in a formal decision model. ... In decision analysis, an unknown unknown, often shortened to unk-unk, is an uncertainty that is unanticipated and, hence, unaccounted for in a formal decision model. ... Major league affiliations American League (1901–present) East Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 23, 32, 37, 44, 49 Name New York Yankees (1913–present) New York Highlanders (1903-1912) Baltimore Orioles (1901-1902) (Also referred to as... Philip Francis Rizzuto (born Fiero Francis Rizzuto, September 25, 1917 (see below) – August 13, 2007), nicknamed The Scooter, was an American shortstop in Major League Baseball who spent his entire career from 1941 to 1956 with the New York Yankees. ...

• Chaods

This is very interesting.

Forget the game.

Right here.

Here's a guy can't see.

All right,

Gene Larkin is the NO!

Gene Larkin?

What did he do?

Base on balls.

• Forever Young

Bobby Thigpen out there.

Number thirty-seven.

That's the guy in the Peanuts cartoon.

Pigpen.

That's a joke.

That guy in Peanuts with Charlie Brown.

He's always dirty.

Oh yeah.

Every day.

Orphan Annie.

You know,

She hasn't aged in thirty-two years.

Here is an example based on the first paragraph of this Wikipedia entry:

Found poetry is

Rearrangement.

Words;

Phrases;

Sometimes;

Passages.

Taken.

Notes

1. ^ Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry
2. ^ Brainyquote: William Whewell