The name of
the story is ‘The Prize Poem’ written by P.G. Wodehouse. The
story is based on the theme that ‘nobody can be forced to become a poet’.
In this extract, Wodehouse describes how in a school the students of the Sixth Form
were compelled to compete for the prize-poem. A grown up student, Reynolds, who
was convalescing in an Infirmary wrote four lines on several pieces of paper
that were accidentally blown away.
Thus the
poems submitted by three students began exactly with the same four lines. The Headmaster wanted to punish
them for collusion. But they confessed the truth, and the rule of
competition changed. The entire situation is described in a light-hearted
tone. The use of colloquial language and the student slang makes the whole
account very spicy.
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