Question:
Would it be illegal if I did this?
okay so theres this woman in yahoo answers and she wrote this poem I saw this person ask about her and OMG I loved it so much!is it illegal to use it for my college paper in literature?
What do you think of this poem?
I saw a person on yahoo answers who wrote this poem and i love it,what do you think of it.im bored.
THIS IS THE FIRST POEM Misery,drown me in the pool of blood that leaks from the seconds of death
Suffocate the breaths that keeps me on this shallow ground Leave me be from the the nightmares that trap me within Dance with the black rose,ripped like fragile paper from not even within a touch skip among mid air,fall and never touch never feel never weep
THIS ONE IS THE SECOND POEM Decieved and kissed
seduced with lies
pushed in the grave of broken glass stupid,
i am such a foolish doll tied with strings to frolic and play with a crooked smile painted on a blank face
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
It's dishonest. It's unethical. It's stealing of the worst kind, not of another's purse, but of her mind.
Legal? Look at what happened to Joe Biden; he lost his run for President, because of plagiarism, and many people have been jailed for it. "Intellectual property theft," it's called.
Trust yourself. If you have the taste to recognize what you love, and what you believe is good, than you will have the talent to create it. It takes work and discipline, which build much healthier "brain" and "character" muscles than does stealing. You can do it.
Again, you know what you like, and that's the first step to creating what you will like. The poems you like stay with the senses and touch the pain of being; study their essense; study what you like about them and look into your own life to see what that smells like, looks like, sounds like, feels like, tastes like--then write and write and write, until you get exactly what that kind of pain causes YOU to experience.
Amateurs write, and professionals re-write.