Paragraphs that tell a Composed of line w/ no beginning
story middle and end
There are unnecessary A moment of brilliance and
parts perfection so everything is vital.
can easily follow while Demands focus while reading
reading because of its difficulty.
Exper -immersing yourself in what is happening in the
ience poem -doesnt concern in finding what the poem actually means -revelling in the moment of reading a poem -Different experience for different people -No 1-1 correspondence with an object or image to an experience. Reso -the reverberation that the poem has made in you nanc while reading it e -How you find yourself in the process of reading the poem -Poem finding something in you -fracture within us while reading -poetry must be expressed in both UNIVERSAL and PARTICULAR -the poet and the reader gives new personal insight on a universally accepted concept -brings novelty to the work -Resonance loses its power to find a natural frequency in people when something becomes clich Distill - ridding of unwanted/extraneous things to ation understand poetry in its particulate form of -since poem is the purest form of language which we Lang want to express an experience uage - Words, punctuations etc. are not in the customary form -to get to the point where language is so pure that there is no other way to say it. -it cannot be paraphrased because it is complete in itself
Poetic Impulse
Introduc -letting the poem show itself to you
tion to -to prance around the poems surface and not Poetry force some meaning out of it -losing yourself in the text (poem- -Resonance will never happen when youre color suspicious of the poem. slide) -appreciate poems first (ear-hive) -poems are aesthetic rather than (mouse- cognitive;elusive us) -Goal of poetry is to familiarize the things that we (poem- already know maze) -to lengthen our perception (poem- -what is important is not the one being dark understood but the process of understanding it. room) (water ski) Persona and the Dramatic Situation (DS) First, a Magical, Musical, Brightness moving, birds Las Ruinas -Juana the Mad poem flowering, holds secret, slender bell, hold fire, Del Corazon Alhambra, Saint Ursula, Saint Susana must be bow (wisdom and constancy), rose, dove and Philip @ 28 You Who -The person is looking for someone who magical deer, hide seek bride Never Arrived will never arrive and will never have -god-poem creating and reading is a divine -hopefullness & desperation are the same activity Let me -getting rid of misconceptions thing in the poem tell you -finding our existence/selves in the -beloved is lost from the start Tonight I can -poetic utterance in failed relationships what a mist/ambiguity of the poem Write the -a certain death, how persons of different poem -mist becomes the unifying factor binding Sddest Lines walks of life deal with death brings everything Wishbone -Beloved is Henry -toxic and masochistic persona Persona Poet Speaker Imagery and the Figurative Language -The voice -The author of the -the one Metaph -makes use of our familiarity of things to -the character poem delivering the text or describe something unfamiliar being shown to us -may or may not -the one that -loses value the moment we are already familiar in the poem be represented bu addresses the Linguisti -summoning of a new meaning through an -the one the persona readers c image or figure undergoing the lacuna Drinking -imagery is hallucination/drunkedness dramatic situation Prose poetry alone -used when a certain reality that the poembyis trying -imagesto only last in your drunked state convey is to be respected. midnigh t -when metaphors and figures of speech just gets in the way A sketch -the way we approach love poems might be of the message the author is trying to convey for a wrong -it does disservice to the message being converyed by the modern -telling us something that which is not poem. love -describing something by the absence of -No more room for interruptions poem something else -presents a limit to poetry depending on the themes it is -mo 1-1 correspondence between an image and tryig to convey. a reality -a moral responsibility of the poem to tell things as they are. -Cybele Wishbon -Beloved is Henry e -toxic and masochistic persona Cinnamo -DS- wants to mark his territory, possess the Form -Content actually dictates n Peeler beloved, but bounded by society the form of poetry Imagism -Belief and dependence in the capacity of the image -use of very clear, precise language -getting rid of unnecessary details that wont contribute to the image -respect for image -employs enjambment -the retardation of image formation -allows for gradual and more focused revelation of the image Haiku -Suggestive nature and hence its minimal form -dont have to paint the entire image -deliver immense feeling in its brevity -the cultural significance of the form to Japanese -that they dont battle nature but letting it show itself to them -indicative of the Japanese culture Sonnet -form that allows for a certain kind of elaboration of insight -3 quatrains -iambic pentameter lines -mimics how people speak -used when something needs to be articulated and a certain progression is needed