Final Presentation!

Welcome to my interpretive

Poem of this class.

I hope that listening is

Quite a blast!

We started out disputing

Whether certain words exist

In case you’re feeling curious

I shall present you a list:

Literature and civilization,

Those definitions we did bury,

And then there was this other “word”..

I think it rhymed with Sperry.

Then drudged through Morreall

Which was boring at best,

His theories sure

Put our minds to the test.

For a writer on comedy

He’s a serious bloke,

Whatever would we have done

Without Dr. W’s spark notes?

We learned the theory of superiority

The first of a few,

Where you laugh at others

Because it’s them, and not you.

Next comes incongruity

Where you laugh out of surprise

Because the thing you least expected

Jumps before your eyes.

The relief theory

Is what we learned last.

Here, laughter is the place

Excess stress is cast.

And gosh we sure learned them

To Dr. Williams’ dismay,

Because we found a way to reference them

Every. Single. Day.

Reading Vorhaus was

A much simpler task.

The humor in his explanations

Made them easier to grasp.

He taught us that comedy

Is truth and pain,

And the comedic gap

Is where humor will reign.

The rule of nine

Can be really fun.

I wrote nine poems

Before I picked this one.

We practiced some writing

Just like John said,

And we focused on process

Not the product at the end.

A comedy about honesty

Is what came next,

The Importance of Being Ernest

Was the name of the text.

By not telling the truth

The men who Bunburied
Ended up feeling
Rather worried.

We learned that humor

Is not always great

It can put people

Into an upset state. 

It can be racist and

It can be crude

And some jokes are just

Downright rude.

I never thought about

How much jokes can hurt.

From now on I'll try

To be more alert.

I had no idea and

It surprised me so

That humor differs so much

With each place you go.

We learned a fake religion

Which was kind of neat

Until they started doing

Dirty things with their feet.

We encountered some gentlemen 

With their heads in the clouds

Silently regretting

Their marriage vows 

I got a conversation partner

From a far off place

And our talks truly

Put a smile on my face.

I learned so much 

From this sweet woman

I will never forget

Dear miss Bayan.

Anguished English was fun,

I love me some grammar.

Some people use it

In a really odd manner.

I've developed this fear

of really long words.

Some of those quizzes

were a little absurd.

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

I learned something new

About everyone here.

And y’all learned that my awkwardness

Is pretty severe.

We had lots of fun,

We shared some good laughs.

We saw some comedic

Photographs.

I wish y'all the best

in your future endeavors.

Maybe after this class

We'll all be a bit more clever.

Well, it has come time

That I bid you adieu.

I’m so happy I chose to take

Lit & Civ II.