More hidden verse from obscure sources …
Another intrepid verse miner has dug through a novel by Harry Castlemon called Rodney the Overseer from 1892. I don’t know how she stumbled upon the poem, or even upon the novel, but I think she must have seen something in the book that spoke to her.
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Okay, I’ve forgotten just what hidden verse is. I did read the piece, and liked it, but I couldn’t remember just how such a poem is created, and what relationship it has to the originating work. Does one select phrases deliberately or randomly from the text and assemble them?
Seems to be a completely random thing. Just go mining through the text for provocative phrases, images, etc., and put them together in an interesting way. For fun, mainly, I think. 😉
That certainly has possibilities, especially if you “mine” unlikely texts.