Poe&PicassoPartnership

Poet and Cartoonist - a great team

Throughout history, how cartoons and poems might have worked together.

(Maybe like Poe and Picasso - if they had been alive together)

(from "Annabelle Lee")

--A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling my beautiful Annabelle Lee,

So that her highborn kinsman came and bore her away from me

to shut her up in a sepulchre in this kingdom by the sea.

by Edgar Allen Poe

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The Gibson Girl

How I came into possesion of this I think I'd best not say.

The archaelogical expedition was in TOP SECRET tradition -

I'd prefer to keep it that way.

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Ring around the rosy

Pocket full of posies

Ashes, ashes, we all fall DOWN!

Timeless children's song in which kids plop onto the ground on that last word. It dates from the time of the Black Death, and ashes is a word for death; a cemetery was once called the "ash grove." Many nursery rhymes were written as

The Black Death, believed to be bubonic plague, swept through Europe, Mid-East, India, and China (1347-1351). It killed at least 75 million people.

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On a happier note, the world's first recorded voice was a poem: Thomas Edison's voice on a tinfoil- covered rotating cylinder, 1877:

"Mary had a little lamb,

Its fleece was white as snow --"

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The Scots vs. the English

1314 A.D. -The London Daily Scandal

Wee Bonnie Brucey's feeble forces

will face our team at Bannockburn.

His confidence only endorses

this fact -- that guy will never learn!

His "soldiers," wearing ladies' dresses

don't scare us, but that high-pitched howl

of their darn high school band's excesses

could drive the dead to holler "Foul!"

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But for a better example click

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Gerrymandering

Happened two hundred years ago, thereabouts,

Massachusetts' Governor, Elbridge Gerry, redistricted his state

to improve his own party's political fate

but the Whigs had their doubts

about the strangely shaped boundaries. "It just don't look so great!"

shouted one. "Thing's a salamander."

"No it ain't!" wrote The Globe. "It's a Gerry-mander."

And they printed a drawing. Of all the lampoons

it became one of the earliest political cartoons.

"Gerrymander" has joined our vocabulary.

Could a political poem do the same? (Well, not very.)

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You got nothin' t' worry 'bout, ma'am.

There's nothin your mind could grab.

Can't vote or run for office, preach a sermon, drive a cab,

Can't do man's work in a man's world; that's what men won't allow.

Forget about Women's suffrage,

we've suffered sufficiently now.

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In the early 1900's a short poem shamed the British Parliament into passing child labor laws.

In the early 1900's newspaper cartoons shamed the U.S. Feds and the states into passing child labor laws. An example of each:

The mill is right beside the links,

and every single day

the laboring children can look out

and see the men at play.

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So why couldn't a cartoonist and poet be doubly effective if they'd team up together?

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In mid- 19th century Ireland

Irish farmers were taking their hits

for they had a dire need to hire land -

land that was owned by the Brits.

The potato blight then brought starvation

that brought Merry England to tears,

(not so much for that grim deprivation

but that it placed so much rent in arrears.)

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That's my rhyme. But for an infinitely better example of PoeticPunditry on the subject, click (Then push your BACK button to return, I hope with a tear in your eye.)

Tennial's cartooning was of highest rank and if his style seems familiar it might be because of his famed illustrations of Alice in Wonderland.

Note that "Ireland" has no rhymes in the rhyming dictionary. Yet it's easy to rhyme, as often is the case with a multi-syllabic word and an inventive poet. Like "firebrand" or "tire stand." And I saw a typical liberal blog that mentioned the that's the leader of the "liar band."

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The Reverse Robin Hood

POETRY - Modern as Tomorrow

Poetry hasn't been too popular with news columnists because it's not suited for

detailed facts and figures, but wait! Today poets can link to anything they need without affecting rhyme or meter. Help me experiment!

Here's a toast to the ghost of Hugo Black,

U.S. Senator and the liberals' man,

F.D.R's appointee to the U.S. high court,

and Knight of the

And Hugo, (well you go and ),

said his favorite slogan in the long run,

“The Separation of Church and State”

supercedes Amendment One.

The First Amendment forbids the state

to infringe on religious debate,

but the Hugo-an slogan did a heck-of-a-lot more,

making churches steer clear of the state.

Perhaps Hugo recalled long ago, some appalled

church had preached from its heart against slavery,

and he sought to ensure that religion stays pure

and separates from such knavery.

And he wrote, as the champion of the oppressed

the that scraps

all your rights and puts you for years behind bars

without charge if your parents are Japs.

Now does he delight in his far-away night

that liberals now take a stand

and defend gallantly the rights of the poor

by helping the rich

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Minden Firm Builds First Plant to Convert Cooking Oil to Diesel

First Ouch! This was a good example when I posted it and for weeks afterward but I just found it fell victim of the curse of the links: When you link to someone else's site the link might be broken at any time. Sorry!

Oops again. It occurred to me to google for another headline to use as an anchor link. Now I'm using the substitute link instead. (I had to do exactly the same thing for my "helping the rich seize their land" link in the above item on Justice Hugo Black. Which is why it's important to frequently test all your links to sites external to your own.

Although a cartoonist I'll admit that I'm not,

a PoeticPundit could work with a Cartoonist a lot!

The below might appear in the paper, and yet

the above would be suitable just for the net.

Though the two are quite similar, here's the upshot:

one is LINKED to the news while the other is not.

Find New Sources of Fuel, urges president

In his State of the Union address President Bush stated that America must give up its dependence on foreign oil. He said we need furthur research on obtaining ethanol from sources other than corn - such as grass.

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“ U.S. women are oppressed,” is the NOW gals'
to the UN, (and I wouldn't fib ya)
to the human rights committee and it seems somewhat quaint
the committee is headed by Libya.

But they've said to all those of a chauvinist hue

"We're gonna tell the U.N. on you."

The report also states that "we note with alarm"

programs that engendered gender equality

programs forty years old - are Buying the Farm -,

and are no longer part of our national polity

because vile politicians have selfishly pleaded

programs forty years old MIGHT no longer be needed.

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I guess teaming up "engendered" and "gender" is a little too cutesy for serious poetry but it should be acceptable for PoeticPunditry.

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