BS: Longest Poem?

Subject: BS: Longest Poem?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 04:15 PM

CHAMPIER, France (AFP) — A 30-year-old Frenchman displayed on Friday what he claimed is the longest poem in world — nearly 7,600 verses written on a roll of fabric that stretched more than a half-mile on a racetrack in southeast France.
Patrick Huet, a public notary, spent a month and a half composing Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World and then a further month copying it onto the material, which was unrolled with the help of a tractor.

The work is an acrostic, a poem in which the first letters of each verse spell out a message — in this case the text of the 30 articles of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2006-08-04-long-poem_x.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Longest Poem?
From: Wesley S
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 04:20 PM

Can we set it to music?

Subject: RE: BS: Longest Poem?
From: skipy
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 04:22 PM

Can we set it on fire?
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Longest Poem?
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 05:08 PM

Some Human Rights organization will no doubt be calling on volunteers to embroider it.....then they will want it displayed on the Eiffel Tower.

Hey! Maybe Christo can drape Baghdad with it!

Subject: RE: BS: Longest Poem?
From: skipy
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 05:25 PM

Eiffel tower is 986ft. tall.
We know that the poem is "over 1/2 mile" therefore minimum of 2640 ft.
It could of course be cut into 4 with 660ft of it hung on each side.
There will be the 4 x unknown extra bits as well.
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Longest Poem?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 07:23 PM

Estimated cost for the Eiffel Tower extension would be $276,000,000.
Would it be worth it?

Subject: RE: BS: Longest Poem?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 04 Aug 06 - 09:20 PM

Capitan Gaspar de Villagrá, to celebrate the re-conquest of New Mexico in 1612 by don Juan de Oñate, wrote "Historia de la Nueva México" in 34 cantos covering some 285 folio pages.
In New Mexico, I remember teachers sometimes would threaten mis-behavers with having to memorize a Canto from this elephantine tome.

Now the entire work, in the original 17th c. Spanish, is on the internet. Enjoy!
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/chic/12706181025609384321435/index.htm