Question Home

Position:Home>Poetry> 10 points for.......?


Question:I have to write a found Poem.
Can you please give me examples of some found Poems to help me write it and give me tips!
Thank You
And remember you could win 10 points


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I have to write a found Poem.
Can you please give me examples of some found Poems to help me write it and give me tips!
Thank You
And remember you could win 10 points

look for an unknown website and copy

Look in Wikipedia -- it's loaded with information.

An example:

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

Another example:
An example of found poetry appeared in William Whewell’s "Middle Treatise on Mechanics":

"And hence no force, however great,
can stretch a cord, however fine,
into a horizontal line
that shall be absolutely straight."