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Anna S. Barnett I'll Take "Truth" for $1000Man was made
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2.21.00 Morgan 
Art is why i get up in the morning I think it's beautiful. Its full of feeling and it's funny and quirky and touching all at the same time. I laughed, i cried:) No, i really thought it was wonderful. I was inspired.
editors note: reviews below go from oldest to most recent. a poet from Atmore, Alabama
boring I got no feeling from this "poem". Where is the emotion?
Trampas Johnson (gordonshumway@hotmail.com) from Plentywood, MT. 8/2/99
I liked it! Any person who can eloquently equate Alex Trebek's perfection to God deserves a hearty pat on the back! This poem made me laugh, made me think, and to the poet who posted above, implied perfection in a human being shouldn't bring emotion. It should make you think. Just because a poem is not soggy with angst, love, or trepidation does not make it any less crafted.
Adam Spurgeon Zens (adam@locustandhoney.com) from Dresser, Wisconsin. 9/24/99
A poem with emotion and irony aplenty Beautiful and symbolically charged poem. The tension worked out here is between the dime-a-dozen, throw-away, consumerist mentality which has no philosophical room for anything but trivia and the deeper nature of truth which cannot be reduced to a game show. Hence, the Irony in the title of taking this category for $1,000. No one would dare take truth for a grand. Too scary in our day and age. Notice the inversion of "gameshow" and "light" in the last stanza. Very clever. It's not so much a matter of Trebek's intelligence equalling God's as much as it refers, I think, to the universal human striving, created in the image of God, to want to erect a tower of Babel-like structure of super-intelligence. But of course, it's a "super-intelligence" comprised of trivia games. p.s. Oh, and there's lots of emotion. Imagine yourself in that spot, wanting to get an easy trivia question but finding yourself dealing with Truth. --Adam, Editor of
10-3-99 ophelia from Eugene, OR
incantation well...very interesting, i must say. kinda makes you think, doesn't it? about the substance of things, and all that.
P.J. from Spokane, WA
Very provoking. . . I agree with Gordon. "Bitterness does not a poet make." This one shows alot of promise, I think we've got a budding philosopher on our hands. The piece shows creativity. It's odd that a Bio student would come up with this kind of thought. Many that I know claim to have a premium on truth.
11.20.99 scott (buk3994@aol.com) from lexington,ky
Hallmark philosophy reads like the first draft of an ill-conceived poem by a fourth-grader.
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