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B1 中級 英語 8:39 Educational

What is the Shortest Poem?

Vsauce · 7,554,526 回視聴 · 追加日 3週間前

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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. I am in Green Bank,

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West Virginia. Pocahontas County. And my favorite word

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is ...

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I learned it from Big Bird and it's not so much a word

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as the alphabet, if you try to pronounce it

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like a word. It's a neat trick, almost poetic.

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But what counts as poetry? How short can something be and still be

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a poem? What is the shortest poem

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in the world and why does knowing it

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matter?

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Okay, now I am in Charlottesville, Virginia

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in a hotel room. I'm on the road this week.

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Take a look at my amazingly fancy

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set up. A popular contender for the shortest

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story in the world is apocryphally

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attributed to Ernest Hemingway. It contains only six

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words. "For sale. Baby shoes.

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Never worn." A popular contender for the title of world's

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shortest poem and the one honored at WorldsShortestPoem.com

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is a clever couplet attributed to Strickland

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Gillilan, titled "on the Antiquity

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of Microbes" or sometimes just

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"Fleas". It goes like this: " 'Fleas' /

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Adam / Had 'em" But shorter

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rhyming couplets are possible. Gyles Brandreth

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wrote the very cute "Ode to a Goldfish."

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"Oh, wet / pet"

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