# REDIRECT Vogon # Poetry

* BBC's page on Vogon Poetry with a Vogon Poem Generator

The film's commentary states that the idea behind the high flat noses was that they evolved both the noses and the severe bureaucracy from being repeatedly smacked in the face by the paddle creatures under the sand on Vogsphere whenever they had an independent thought ( in the film, the Vogon bureaucracy is centred on Vogsphere ).

Another favourite Vogon pastime is to import millions of beautiful jewel-backed scuttling crabs from their native planet, cut down giant trees of breathtaking beauty, and spend a happy drunken night smashing the crabs to bits with iron mallets and cooking the crab meat by burning the trees.

" Vogon poetry is of course the third worst in the Universe.

Film Version: " Vogon poetry is widely accepted as the third worst in the Universe.

A second example of Vogon poetry is found in the Hitchhiker's Guide interactive fiction game that was produced by Infocom.

The Vogon Captain in charge of overseeing the destruction of the Earth, Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz is sadistic, even by Vogon standards.

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams, the Earth is destroyed by a Vogon Constructor Fleet to make room for a hyperspace bypass.

A red dwarf star about six light years from Earth, Barnard's Star is an interstellar transit stop used by the Vogon constructor fleet after demolishing Earth, where the crews ' planet leave is cancelled after Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz has an unhappy love affair.

A distorted version of Southend is one of the visions that confront Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect when the Improbability Drive of the Heart of Gold transports them to the ship from outer space having been thrown out from the Vogon ship.

This is, however, against Vogon regulations, and when the pair are discovered, they are tortured with hearing Vogon poetry, the third worst in the known Universe, and then thrown into space.

In the first series, Earthman Arthur Dent is going to have his house demolished to make way for a new road, but before work can start his friend Ford Prefect informs him that the world is going to be demolished by a Vogon constructor fleet " to make way for a hyperspace bypass " and that he is in fact an alien writer for " The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ".

It ends at a slightly earlier point than the radio episode, after Ford's line " he might want to read us some of his poetry first ", and on a cliffhanger that Arthur and Ford are about to be discovered in a Vogon storeroom, but before the Vogon poetry is actually read.

Russell claims that she is mad, and has been ever since " the hallucinations " — the Vogon Constructor Fleet.

Meanwhile, a Vogon inquiry reveals that Earth's location in a plural zone means that any destroyed version is highly likely to be replaced by an alternate one.

The episode ends with Ford going to floor 23, and being forced to jump out of a window, in order to escape from Zarniwoop Vann Harl, who is revealed to be a disguised Vogon.

The ships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet were described as " impossibly huge yellow somethings " that " looked more like they had been congealed than constructed " and " hung in the air in much the same way that bricks don't " ( the colour being a parallel to bulldozers that demolish Arthur's house ); they are said to be undetectable to radar and capable of travel through hyperspace.

" Prostetnic Vogon " may be a title, rather than part of his name, since during the second episode of the third radio series ( Fit the Fourteenth ), two other Prostetnic Vogons are heard from.

Michael had first appeared in one of the Hitchhiker's stage adaptations, performing no less than twelve roles, reprised the Vogon Guard part in the 1992 Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV documentary ( and voiced the Babel Fish ), appeared in the 1994 photo illustrated edition of the book ( as Prosser ), and returned a third time as a Vogon Guard for the BBC Radio 4 Quandary Phase.

More contemporary examples of nonsense verse are Vogon poetry, found in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or the 1972 song ' Prisencolinensinainciusol ' by Italian multi-talent Adriano Celentano.

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council tortures Ford Prefect ( character ) | Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent with his poetry in the 2005 film The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( film ) | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

In season 2, episode 7 of the NBC series Chuck titled " Chuck Versus The Fat Lady ", Chuck's college girlfriend Jill refers to another character's paranoia and strange literary references when she notes, " The logon for his computer was a randomly selected word from a piece of Vogon poetry.

Martin Benson as Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz reading poetry to Ford and Arthur

After being read Vogon poetry, they are thrown out of an airlock and improbably rescued by the Starship Heart of Gold, which has been stolen by Ford's semi-cousin Zaphod Beeblebrox, accompanied by Trillian, a young woman who Arthur once met at a party.

Griffiths has also performed in adaptations of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, providing the voice for Slartibartfast for the radio adaptation of Life, the Universe and Everything and playing the Vogon Jeltz in the film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

Poetry for a Persian is nothing less than truth and beauty.

F.S.C. Northrop, in his discussion of The `` Functions And Future Of Poetry '', suggests this: `` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing, practical, utilitarian concern of common-sense objects.

Poetry was for him ...' a morbid secretion ', as the pearl is for the oyster.

*** The Classic of Poetry is made up of 305 poems divided into 160 folk songs, 74 minor festal songs, traditionally sung at court festivities, 31 major festal songs, sung at more solemn court ceremonies, and 40 hymns and eulogies, sung at sacrifices to gods and ancestral spirits of the royal house.

Lessing is important as a literary critic for his work Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry.

Poetry is esteemed, including extemporaneous rhyme competitions on given topics.

T. S. Eliot attacked the reputation of Kubla Khan and sparked a dispute within literary criticism with his analysis of the poem in his essay " Origin and Uses of Poetry " from The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ( 1933 ): " The way in which poetry is written is not, so far as our knowledge of these obscure matters as yet extends, any clue to its value ...

Poetry ( from the Greek poiesis — — with a broad meaning of a " making ", seen also in such terms as " hemopoiesis "; more narrowly, the making of poetry ) is a form of literary art which uses the aesthetic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

Poetry is often separated into lines on a page.

The Public Address events include Informative Speaking, Persuasive Speaking, Rhetorical Criticism, and After Dinner Speaking ; the Limited Preparation events include Impromptu Speaking and Extemporaneous Speaking ; and the interpretation events include Poetry, Prose, Dramatic Interpretation, Dramatic Duo Interpretation ( in which at least one dramatic piece is presented by two speakers working together ), Duo Interpretation ( in which two speakers present a scene or scenes from any source ), and Programmed Oral Interpretation ( in which speakers use material from multiple genres with a common theme ).

Poetry, such as Sappho's, written in quantitative verse, is difficult to reproduce in English which uses stress-based meters and rhyme compared to Ancient Greek's solely length-based meters.

The current ( 2012 ) Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion is Dominique Ashaheed, who was also part of Denver's Slam Nuba in 2011.

For example, at Berklee College of Music, in Boston, Slam Poetry is now available as a Minor course of study.

" Poetry reveals being in the way in which, if it is genuine poetry, it commences something new.

One such example is the Mead of Poetry, a mead of Norse mythology crafted from the blood of the wise being Kvasir which turns the drinker into a poet or scholar.

Poetry is further subdivided into epic, lyric, and drama.

The Poetry is in the pity.

The Poetry is in the pity.

Heaney's engagement with poetry as a necessary engine for cultural and personal change, is reflected in his prose works The Redress of Poetry ( 1995 ) and Finders Keepers: Selected Prose, 1971 – 2001 ( 2002 ).

* John Stuart Mill: What is Poetry?

He is also a member of the UK Poetry Society, and his poems have appeared in Poetry Review.