User blog:Dark Cyan/Cyan's Rap Battles 24: Romantic Age Poets vs 20th Century Poets

Hello, everyone. And welcome back to Cyan's Rap Battles!

Yes, this battle is a day late. That's because I was busy yesterday, and this battle is a big one! It's my mid-season and that's a cause for celebration just as much as a finale is. Maybe even more so, as there's more to come!

I must thank Legion for writing the parts of all three Romantic Age poets. Nobody, and I mean, nobody on this site could have done a better job than him with these characters. I mean that.

This battle pits three legendary English poets who were figureheads of the Romantic Age; William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake, against three of the most important English poets of the 20th Century; Wilfred Owen, Spike Milligan and John Cooper Clarke, so see which era of poetry is the most supreme.

Speaking of poetry, check out Lexi's Poetry Slam! That's going to produce a lot of great poems. I can already tell :3

Enjoy!

William Wordsworth
This battle's an Anthem to Damned Youth, Sonn-et Burns, this beating

Your struggles are Futility's Prelude, regret this Strange Meeting

UntiL-u-cy the truth of poems, your work's worse than Voltaire's is

Lyrical Ballads against faux-ets, another smash hit with Coleridge!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Verse the First, cease with your Gimmix, lest I leave Siberia like Frost at Midnight

On opium, I can see you're an XTC addict, a punk who needs to learn class, refined

Victory I can Xana-du in Music War, truth being mine scholarly merits be earnt

I and the Williams are kin, Romantics, these disparate fools shall lay in dearth

William Blake
Let me paint a picture of Splinter's Innocence with Songs of Experience

Against the Tyger, you'll be trembling, shocked, like the fear evinced

In your War biographies, so Milligan, here's my part in your downfall, Goon

Poetical Sketches against sketchy "poets"? You're the mind behind "Puckoon".

Wilfred Owen
I feel pity for you, Wordsworth. An Englishman in Germany.

Our victory of the battle against these dusty old relics is a certainty!

Entrenched in French lands, it smelled better than this Victorian fop.

Here’s a muddy puddle. Go and clean yourself off!

John Cooper Clarke
So this is where the talent isn’t. Ain’t that a pisser?

Are you on a drug trip? Just stick to fucking Frickers.

How did you come up with Pantisocracy? You must have mixed your stash with crack!

Tap into that creativity that you bloody lack. Bloody hack! Bloody quack!

Spike Milligan
Blake, your words are hot air with no impact; Roaring Quiet.

Your food for thought is a dull as squash soup; Boring Diet.

You’re in the wrong place at the wrong time; Gordon Riots.

“Have a Nice Day” said Spike Milligan, winning with no scoring bias.

William Blake
Such ridiculous notions from authors of such childish, Silly verse!

Q5 more years and a Song of Los from a manic destined for a hearse

William Wordsworth
Sassoon's spittoon failed his platoon, and what came off?

Challenging an influence? Leaving as the Military, Cross.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Time the second, Coleridge comes, curting invasion into Chickentown

Tell me of this minstrel so dumb, thinking Pete takes the Shelley crown?

Maintain suspension of disbelief, as this wordy lady-abuser's replica

Disconcordancy gives rise to beef, in performance a poet? More Metallica.

William Blake
This Idiot Weekly pays the price for his pride, not unlike one Job

But enough! I must return to engraving, so another's Will take ove'

William Wordsworth
Even confined to England, Two Volumes, and each a World War

An Excursion to class, we're spitting mustard gas evermore

John Cooper Clarke
At least Southey had vision. You’ve got absolutely fuckall!

The only reward your work deserves is a swift kick to the balls!

Spike Milligan
While I’m entertaining troops, you’re having crazy visions of God!

I’ve seen death, so damn your angels! It takes more that dreams to make me awed!

Wilfred Owen
Everything you’ve said is a bigger lie than what they told me;

“Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori”

So I wonder what your word’s worth when we get straight down to business.

This is one onslaught that will be all over by Christmas!

John Cooper Clarke
Sammy, your talent’s no bigger than a ha’penny fart

[http://johncooperclarke.com/?p=49 Exit your team’s third wheel. Enter Johnny Clarke]

Spike Milligan
Treat others how you wish to be treated. That’s what Granny used to say.

So look at these men of equal talent, state of mind and wild ways!

William Wordsworth
What lies confound me! Allied with a madman and a leech!

This opium-addled Watchman surely Kubla Khan't aid me!

William Blake
To think we were once mates! Treachery like this reminds me of Stothard!

To generalize is to be an idiot, but you all hang off Inferno's beard!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Again, Blake with the sight rhymes, for it seems he lacks the wit and time

Profitless Prophet against Empire, I bringst a Marriage of Heaven and Line!

William Blake
Dear boy! We seem to have come apart at the seems, let us again be kin

Strive to combat drollity, bringing anarky such as Clarke's hairy din!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Truth, this Ancient Rap-sodist wishes to remain as a united front

Leaving every aloof one so dissed so they fall, weary, beneath our brunt

William Wordsworth
Alas! Apologies my brothers, for I fell into grave error!

Claim modernity? Let us end another despised Reign of Terror!

Wilfred Owen
Look at these fools flounder like they swim through fire or lime!

That's sadder than having lived through the worst World War of all time!

Spike Milligan
I do Nazi how a Christmas football match matches the terror of the Blitz!

You should go back to Sambre–Oise Bridge, and stop talking such shit!

John Cooper Clarke
Oi! You knocked my pint over! I just paid for that, you twat!

You can bloody well buy me another one and carry that bastard back!

Spike Milligan
I'm really sorry about your beer, my Lancashire friend.

If it helps, I think it's some incredibly funny poetry you penned.

John Cooper Clarke
Cheers, mate! I've got to tell you, you're one hell of a guy.

Your work paved the way for spoken word Punk Poets such as I.

Wilfred Owen
Though we three are vastly different, we are united against these "Romantics".

Through our influences, messages and legacy, all we have done is fantastic!

Poll
WHO WON? Romantic Age Poets 20th Century Poets