How to Write a Parody Poem

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Summary: A parody poem makes fun of other poems, but is still written as well as a poem with serious intentions. Write a parody poem that exposes flaws of other poems with tips from a playwright in this free video on creative writing lessons.

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By Laura Turner
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Laura Turner received her B.A. in English from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., graduating magna cum laude with honors. She then attended the University of Nevada, Las...read more

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"Hi, this is Laura Turner, and today I'm going to talk with you about how to write a parody poem. There is no better example that I can think of of a parody poem than Shakespeare's Sonnet Number 130. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun. There are so many poems being written as odes to ladies with qualities that were more fair and ideal than humanly possible. So Shakespeare decided one day that he would write a parody poem on these poems that he himself had written hundreds of. So if we look at it today, my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is far more red than her lips' red, if so be white, then why her breasts are done? If hairs be wires black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white. But no such roses see I in her cheeks. So Shakespeare is describing his lady as she is. She does not have rosy cheeks. Her lips are not that red. Her hair is kind of black and wiry. It is not ebony and beautiful. As he would have described it in a particular poem. So this poem is making fun of other poems like it. So when you're writing your parody poem, however, it's always good to remember to actually write it, see this poem is actually a sonnet, it is actually written in the same form and it starts off and it seems to be the same thing as all of the other poems. Write it as well as you would write a poem that is a normal poem, not the parody poem. So the point is not to write a bad poem but to write a parody of that poem, and in order to do that you're going to have to expose the flaws of the other kind of poem by you know sort of one upping those poems with your parody. So this is just some - this is advice for writing a parody poem."

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