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Research Paper on Pictorial Poetry

Ashok verma

Poetry is supposed to be the beauty of the literature. Poetry is a form of linguistic expression that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in
addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning. It is supposed to be the most subjective and intricate in view of emotions, and brief, rhythmic, aesthetic and artistic in
view of language and expression. It expresses the profound in simple ways, and the simple in profound ways. Poetry is as old as human civilization. In olden limes rhythm,
rhyming, etc, were very important part of poetry because it was easy to keep it in mind. But, poetry is very subjective thing, so there had never been uniformity in its definition or in
the matter of its form. It is just impossible to give a universal defition of poetry. Even those people who do not write poetry can give their own definitions of poetry. Thus, it is just
impossible to define poetry and say something specifically about its form or construction of poetry. From the antiquity to now, no universal or perfect definition of poetry has
been given. The definition of poetry by William Wordsworth is supposed to be the most accepted one. It is a well-known Wordsworth's statement that poetry originates from
emotion recollected and in tranquillity and becomes a 'spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings'. Poetry is often a condensed form of prose in thought, in meaning and
imagery. It has many levels of meaning in a very short space of words that allows or requires or demands it to be contemplated more deeply than prose. All poetry is not so
powerful. The subject matter of poetry is often very personal, subjective and touching in a reflective way that conveys strong emotions. Much poetry tries to use words sparingly
with no unnecessary words; so poetry is terse in meaning and tighter in form and construction that has more energy, power and strength in a shorter space. Poetry is so crafted
that it perfectly conveys our thoughts, emotions, intuitions, profundities, aspirations, passions, loves, etc.
The idea that a poem is like a picture has been a commonplace topic since ancient Greek Civilization, and artists and poets have frequently discussed poetry by
when smiles discussing painting, and vice versa. From Plutarch, when he says, 'painting is mute poetry, poetry a speaking picture' to Horace, when he says, 'as a picture, so a poem',
apparent clarity leads to controversy about what qualities or attributes of a picture are being urged upon poets or how pictorial properties can be converted into poetical
enjoy your ones. The history of comparing and contrasting paintings and poetry turns to be partly a story of attempts to promote one medium of art at the cost of the other. Leonard
Barkan argues that this dialogue is an expression of desire; the painter yearns for the rich signification of words, while the poet yearns for the direct sensuousness of
oneness; painting. He examines critically the ambiguous history of relationship between words and images, focussing on the period from antiquity to the Renaissance but offering
insights that have very much to say about visual art and literature. Barkan has elegantly compressed the long history of theorizing the relationship between language,
literature and visual art. He has once again boldly sidestepped modern scholars to focus on what has been said about words and images by painters, poets and
your souls philosophers from ancient times to the Renaissance. But, so even-handedly he dealt this controversy that he failed to notice its radical asymmetry: while poetry is said to
equal picture plus speech, painting is said to equal poetry minus speech.
merge From the very beginning, it is said that painting is mute poetry or poetry is a speaking picture. As a painting, so a poem. In the time of romantic poetry, the imagery was a

cheerfully very important part of poetry, William Wordsworth, P.C. Shelley, Byron and especially John Keats used imagery in their poetry in abundance. John Keats was known for

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