Today in class we read the “Dublimericks” created by Bernard Benstock and Michael J. O'Shea. Please add your own limerick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_(poetry) in which you provide a capsule summary of a work of literature (or, if you'd prefer, a single aspect of that work). If the work is not immediately recognizable to us, please identify it. Also, just because someone has already written a limerick on a work of literature doesn't mean you can't write on that one as well. Good luck and have fun!
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Rushing, and then meditating,
Hamlet keeps us all waiting.
Says the thing is the play
And the King he will pay,
Yet STILL he keeps hesitating!
Poor Janie searched for freedom,
But to inhibiting marriages she was to succumb,
Until Tea Cake set flying her soul
And ceased to practice male control,
Erasing from Janie's life aspects troublesome.
This limerick references Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, one of the summer reading options. It reveals Janie's struggle to find herself through several relationships with men.
Catcher in the Rye
Sick of the phonies in school,
Holden decided to go somewhere cool.
When he spends time in the city,
he meets people who are perverty,
and learns that he's been a fool.
Seeing Pheobe makes him cry.
There's no catcher in the rye.
He's no guardian on a cliff.
Underneath the rain he goes stiff,
and ends in a hospital sty.
Ophelia sang to the queen
Wife of Hamlet's uncle, so mean!
How Hamlet did hate her
How he tried to mate her
Then she went and died in a stream.
^I think it speaks for itself
Othello lured the fair Desdemon;
The warrior's past was she shown.
But Iago planned an expert scheme
To tear their union at the seams.
Into his crowded net was the couple thrown.
Great Gatsby was "Everyman"
Whose humble roots he could not stand.
For Daisy's love and wealth did he strive,
But little turned right of what he contrived.
Murder of this sad man remained the sole command.
Harry Potter had just turned thirteen
He thought that wizards were just in dreams
He went to school and met some friends
Lord Voldemort tried to make it end
Though V will never win it seems
Eveline met her prince charming,
With his help she'd escape her father's harming.
Yet when the boat took sail
She stood holding the rail,
for her lover seemed all the more alarming.
Little Chandler spent the night at a bar
With his old friend Gallaher (har).
He wanted his name
To be granted fame,
But the baby makes dreams seem too far.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
McMurphy thought that he was fine,
so he rebelled against the Combine.
Then Ratched goes and gets mad
and Billy Bibbet gets sad,
and Bromden crossed the hospital line.
The Secret Life of Bees
When Lily shot her mother dead,
it took its toll on her young head,
but after she ran away
from her father, T-Ray,
she found a new family instead.
Vampire Edward had a secret to keep
Part of which was that he did not sleep
Then Bella came and discovered his past
And knew how they could make their love last
And Jacob just thinks that Edward’s a creep
Oh poor Hamlet doesn’t know what to do
His father dead and now his mother too
Cladius and Layertes want him dead
To win this fight he must keep them out of his head
Hamlet’s almost finished now and must bid all adieu
oops sorry i ment Laertes
Frankenstein made up a beast,
Which from dead bodies was pieced.
Then the cottagers found,
His gross looks profound,
Though he was not cruel in the least.
For Hamlet...
Meloncoly was Hamlet the Dane
(His uncle had his father slain)
But if he wants to prove it
He will have to move it
Instead of acting insane
For Ophelia...
Before she was pushing up daisies
Ophelia became one of the crazies
Because she was sad
At the loss of her dad
And the man with whom she wanted babies
For Polonius...
Polonius did love his art
He thought it made him sound smart
But on his son he spied
And Opelias lover he denied
Now what a nosey old fart!
This is from 1984...
Winston worked in Minitrue
Where five was two plus two
He knows it's a lie
But to admit is to die
So he kept on writing fake news
Winston wasn't the only one
Who wanted Big Brother to be done
So Julia he found
And on the forest ground
They made a crime that was doubleplus fun
Oh how he wanted to know it all
It was just enough curiosity to lead to his downfall
Oedipus was disturbed
By the news he had learned
So he went and poked out his eyeball
It may have started as a game
but reality is not the same
this time when you shoot
the body gives life the boot
and in jail you go insane.
This is in reference to Jodi Picoult's book Nineteen Minutes. It's really good if you haven't read it, though it obviously cannot compare to anything by James Joyce.
The Saga of Ice and Fire
Winter is coming
Warriors are drumming
Dragons are born
Families are torn
And Others are waking
Frodo tried destroy the ring
whos power controls everything
but he did not know
that gollum would soon show
and take it for another king
The Fellowship was grouping of men
elves, hobbits, dwarfs made almost ten
Legolas was pretty
mary and pippen were witty
but with the fighting noone was zen.
Raskolnikov sells his prized possessions
All to make some good impressions
Yet these impressions he wants to make
Are of men too drunk to wake
He then meets a man in great depression
He meets a man who left his wife
And now knows not what to do with his life
He stole her money and wasted it all
On drinks which only caused his fall
For he is really just a lowlife
He goes back begging forgiveness
Yet what he did does not show his goodness
Then Raskolnikov leaves some coins on the sill
The first act we see of goodwill
Yet then he goes and hates his rashness
For Raskolnikov wants to take his money back
But this will be a very noticed act
So Raskolnikov just slinks away
And leaves husband and wife to fight alone that day
He is trying to be a man of tact
Prone to psychological doom,
Raskolinov is full of gloom.
To murder her is his plan,
but is he enough of a man?
He and Hamlet should get a room.
Harry Potter is an unfortunate boy,
For the Potions Master treats him as an unwanted toy,
He is given T for Troll on all his potions exams,
For when he does brew a potion in the right amount of grams,
A student knocks it over as Harry shouts, "oyi!"
There onece was a girl from forks
she found the place rather couse.
She soon met a "boy"
and then oh wat a joy
but thank god for the yellow porshe
Yeah i went there just like Allie did but Forks and couse were the first rimeing words that came to mind so in case you haven't figured it out its Twilight and New Moon
there once was a boy from Viena
he found he had quite the delema
but his fickle heart chose
so he wrote her some prose
whenjis love tryed to die he said letme finnish the rest
i know that one is bad Romeo & Juliet in case it was too obscure
Ron, Hermione and Harry
need certainly be weary
for not only is Tom back
Umbridge won't cut them any slack
hermione would rather die than fail
ron ends up puking snails
harry tries not to care about what they all say
honestly, is dumbledore really gay?
** I'm not just being immature and stupid there was a big controversy about JK Rowling announcing Dumbledore's sexual preference.
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