Author: Samuel Davis Jr Publisher: ISBN: 9781418423773 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
"Poetic Reality-in a complicated world," is a book of poems unlike most. The title explains the overall understanding. This book is about real life issues, written into poems. It also covers several other topics, and has several meanings. The most important meaning contained within the book is the understanding of "self importance." We are faced with many adversities in our lives, and for the most part these adversities can cloud our understanding of who we truly are. Often times we "give in" to these conditions and find ourselves in a state of depression, whether it be major depression, or minor. "Poetic Reality- in a complicated world," allows the reader to understand the several emotions, or feelings they may experience while attempting to cope with these trying times, and even though these "gray" times are present in our lives, they don't have to completely consume one's existence. Better days will follow, as long as we can be "real" to ourselves and keep in mind how important we truly are to ourselves. This book will assist the reader in understanding that we "all" experience adversity at one time or another. It is truly up to us to figure out how to deal with these times. The poems in this book are from emotional experiences author Samuel Davis Jr., has experienced in his life, as well as shared feelings from his family and friends. "Poetic Reality" is about real life, as we continue our learning from life's lessons, through trial and error.
Author: David P. Ferguson, Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1467838233 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 109
Book Description
Poetic Reality of the Searching Mind, is a journey down the path of modern poetry, revealing lifes twist and turns and the contemplation of real life situations from the real mans perspective. The poems are artistically written, profound in the consideration of the material and prose, yet simple to understand, so that everyone can read and be impacted deeply by what is written. The author connects the conscious mind and the hearts of the reader in each line and verse in the expression of his poetic art. This is a definite must read !
Author: Joseph Hillis Miller Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674680500 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 390
Book Description
Although many books deal individually with each of the major writers treated in Poets of Reality, none attempts through analyses of these particular men and their works, to identify the new directions taken by twentieth-century literature. J. Hillis Miller, challenging the assumption that modern poetry is merely the extension of an earlier romanticism, presents critical studies of the six central figuresâe"Joseph Conrad, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williamsâe"who played key roles in evolving a poetry in which âeoereality comes to be present to the senses, and present in the words of the poem which ratify this possession.âe A new kind of poetry has appeared in the twentieth century, the author claims, a poetry which, growing out of romanticism and symbolism, goes far beyond it. The old generalizations about the nature and use of poetry are no longer applicable, and it is the gradual emergence of new forms, culminating in the work of Williams, that Miller traces and defines.
Author: Davis Samuel Publisher: ISBN: 9781418423780 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
"Poetic Reality-in a complicated world," is a book of poems unlike most. The title explains the overall understanding. This book is about real life issues, written into poems. It also covers several other topics, and has several meanings. The most important meaning contained within the book is the understanding of "self importance." We are faced with many adversities in our lives, and for the most part these adversities can cloud our understanding of who we truly are. Often times we "give in" to these conditions and find ourselves in a state of depression, whether it be major depression, or minor. "Poetic Reality- in a complicated world," allows the reader to understand the several emotions, or feelings they may experience while attempting to cope with these trying times, and even though these "gray" times are present in our lives, they don't have to completely consume one's existence. Better days will follow, as long as we can be "real" to ourselves and keep in mind how important we truly are to ourselves. This book will assist the reader in understanding that we "all" experience adversity at one time or another. It is truly up to us to figure out how to deal with these times. The poems in this book are from emotional experiences author Samuel Davis Jr., has experienced in his life, as well as shared feelings from his family and friends. "Poetic Reality" is about real life, as we continue our learning from life's lessons, through trial and error.
Author: Peter Campion Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022666337X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 270
Book Description
What do American poets mean when they talk about freedom? How can form help us understand questions about what shapes we want to give our poetic lives, and how much power we have to choose those shapes? For that matter, what do we even mean by we? In this collection of essays, Peter Campion gathers his thoughts on these questions and more to form an evolutionary history of the past century of American poetry. Through close readings of the great modernists, midcentury objectivists, late twentieth-century poets, his contemporaries, and more, Campion unearths an American poetic landscape that is subtler and more varied than most critics have allowed. He discovers commonalities among poets considered opposites, dramatizes how form and history are mutually entailing, and explores how the conventions of poetry, its inheritance, and its inventions sprang from the tensions of ordinary life. At its core, this is a book about poetic making, one that reveals how the best poets not only receive but understand and adapt what comes before them, reinterpreting the history of their art to create work that is, indeed, radical as reality.
Author: Stefan Holander Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113591401X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 249
Book Description
This study examines Wallace Stevens' ideas and practice of poetic language with a focus on the 1930s, an era in which Stevens persistently thematized a keenly felt pressure for the possible social involvement and political utility of poetic language. The argument suggests how mutually implicated elements of his poetry such as diction, prosody and metaphor are relied on to signify or enact aesthetic closure; both in the negative terms of expressive impotence and unethical isolation and the positive ones of imaginative and linguistic change. In this respect, the study deals closely with the epistemologically and ethically fraught issue of the ambiguous and volatile role of non-semantic elements and linguistic difficulty in Stevens' language. Assuming that these facets are not exclusive to this period but receive a very clear, and therefore instructive, formulation in it, the discussion outlines some of Stevens' most central tropes for poetic creativity at this stage of his career, suggesting ways in which they came to form part of his later discourse on poetic functionality, when polemical concepts for the imagination, such as "evasion" and "escapism," became central. Stevens' prosody is discussed from within an eclectic analytical framework in which cumulative rhythmics is complemented by traditional metrics as a way of doing justice to his rich, varied and cognitively volatile use of verse language. The expressive potency of prosodic patterning is understood both as an effect of its resistance to semantic interpretation and by assuming a formal drive to interpret them in relation to the semantic and metaphoric staging of individual poems. A poem, in turn, is understood both as a strategic, stylistically deviant response to the challenges of a particular historical moment, and as an attempt to communicate through creating a sense of linguistic resistance and otherness.
Author: Luo Jun Publisher: Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA ISBN: 1649971540 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 1368
Book Description
For a very long time, I have been preoccupied with the exploration of the academic blind spots that have cropped up in the organic combination of poetic studies and narrative studies that is inclined to give a lot of perceptive and cognitive inspiration to the systematic and strategic con-struction of the theoretical frameworks and theoretical systems of poetic narratology to provide more perceptive and cognitive convenience for the vast majority of readers and scholars to give a much more profound and perspicacious interpretation and illustration of the ideological and epistemological values implied in the diverse and distinctive narration of most poetic narrative texts in an unnoticeable fashion and in an untraceable fashion.
Author: David Evans Publisher: Rodopi ISBN: 9789042019430 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 360
Book Description
Rhythm, Illusion and the Poetic Idea explores the concept of rhythm and its central yet problematic role in defining modern French poetry. Forging innovative lines of inquiry linking the detailed analysis of poetic form to the evolution of fundamental aesthetic principles, David Evans offers extensive new readings of the literary and critical writings of the three major poets at the centre of France's most important poetic revolution. The volume is of interest to all students and readers of Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Mallarmé, since here is presented for the first time a thorough comparative study of developments in each writer's poetic form and theory, focusing on the themes of illusion, deception and the musical metaphor. The book is also intended to stimulate wider critical debate on the interpretation of metrical verse, prose poetry and vers libre, and offers original analytical methods which facilitate the study of poetic form. The author proposes a radical shift in our understanding of the role and mechanisms of poetic rhythm, suggesting that its very resistance to definition and fixity provides a conveniently opaque veil over the difficulties of defining poetry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author: David H. Porter Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400858550 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 297
Book Description
David Porter's approach to Horace's most important lyric collection is through a close sequential reading of the eighty-eight poems in Odes 1-3. Taking into account the way an ancient book was read or recited, this view of the work as a continuously unfolding creation reveals a strong sense of forward movement and of thematic development, at times almost a narrative flow. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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