Just Why Are Palindromes So Good?
Posted: Thursday, March 19, 2009
by Cameron Home
Like always, I shall start on a question I have lately been pondering on. Palindromes, why are they so good? All they are words and phrases backwards. Some are boring and plain like Bob and Hannah but others are amazingly witty and interesting.
What has gotten my mind interested in such things is the palindrome song called "Bob", which is sung by Weird Al Yankovic as a tribute to Bob Dylan. The song is certainly interesting, and I highly recommend it to people who enjoy the sound of palindromes.
"UFO tofu" is so brilliant just because of it's sheer simplicity. "A Toyota's a Toyota" is one that I never got the first few times I heard it because the literal meaning is more obvious than the fact that dogs generally have tails. If you had to write a critical essay body paragraph about palindromes, this would be the quotation I would use. "Rats live on no evil star" is interesting due to the fact that it is the same backwards and forward in both spacing and words. Finally, "do nine men interpret? Nine men I nod", is not so obvious either.
Some palindromes are simple, and some are complex, and that is what makes them so good.
Mr. Home
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Top-level comments on this article: (6 total)This was great, Mr. Home. I have never heard of palindromes--I guess I don't get around much, huh? Anyway, I understand them and can figure them out. That's neat.Have a good week-end and thanks for sharing.Sandra
My favorite has always been "Madam, I'm Adam." Actually, that's the only I knew until today...
Great article. I like Palindromes. I found a great list from a great website all about words. Here they are:Don't nodDogma: I am GodNever odd or evenToo bad – I hid a bootRats live on no evil starNo trace; not one cartonWas it Eliot's toilet I saw?Murder for a jar of red rumMay a moody baby doom a yam?Go hang a salami; I'm a lasagna hog!Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!A Toyota! Race fast... safe car: a ToyotaStraw? No, too stupid a fad; I put soot on wartsAre we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?Doc Note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on codNo, it never propagates if I set a gap or preventionAnne, I vote more cars race Rome to ViennaSums are not set as a test on ErasmusKay, a red nude, peeped under a yakSome men interpret nine memosCampus Motto: Bottoms up, MacGo deliver a dare, vile dog!Madam, in Eden I'm AdamOozy rat in a sanitary zooAh, Satan sees NatashaLisa Bonet ate no basilDo geese see God?God saw I was dogDennis sinned
Why don't you add your poem to this article?My poem shall be another article, which I shall add later.Thanks for the comments, guys.
My favorites are already mentioned except for 'on a limo to Milano', 'a man, a plan, a canal, Panama', and 'Race Car'. I think 'Go hang a salami; I'm a lasagna hog' has got to be my all time favorite.Thanks for writing this, I haven't had so much fun since 2002.So, Ida, Adios!
Palindromes are fascinating, but it makes you wonder how much time one had on hand to be able to sit down and come up with all these. lolThere is a type of poetry called "Line Palindrome". It is not exactly the same as what has been described , here, but it is a type of poetry, whether read forward or backwards, reads the same. Unlike the example of "Rats live on no evil star", it is not the words that can be read backwards in Line Palindrome poetry, but rather the sentence.I'll try to include a couple I have written in my next article.Thanks for this article. I'm sure many have heard of palindromes, but I'm sure you have brought something brand new to other's attention.Interesting, I shall look out for such type of poetry.Thankyou for the comment!Very interesting! Do you think Sarah Palin means the same thing backwards that others mean forward? LOL- EllaHeh, that's funny.
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