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us to be better human beings.
PICTORIAL POETRY: Bringing the concept of meaning and language into the discussions of imagination by the modern phenomenologist's highlights the
mediatory function of imagination in relation to its creative aspects. As the literary and artistic experiments of the 1950s that were at first loosely grouped
together as concrete poetry extended further into the ambiguous sphere which Dick Higgins described in 1965 as 'Intermedia' and another scholar William Dyce
Research Paper on Pictorial Poetry
visited Rome, he was astonished: 'In truth, to me, Rome was a kind of living poem, which the soul read unceasingly, with the soothed sense which poetry
inspires'. This refers to the phenomenon in which the pictorial form of an expression implies its meaning. But what about visual art, and in particular modern
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painting which is largely free of mimetic or realistic representational iconicity (Donald, 2006)? It appears that this genre has not yet been systematically studied
by multimodal researchers, as the existing studies mainly focus on more commercial materials like advertisements, films or political comics. The relationship
between textual and visual art is a complex one, marked by both internal struggle and interdependence. As new research offers fresh insights into this fraught HOW POETRY HAS SHIFTED TO NEW TRACKS OF PICTORIAL POETRY IN SOCIAL AND PAPER MEDIA.
relationship, and what its avant-gardes, belated, present or to come, have been doing, or might do, can only be given the slightest glimpse here. The exploration
INTRODUCTION
of poetic subjectivity, probably due to the concentrated format and the characteristics of poetic language at large, poetry has come to be the ekphrastic genre.
Since their inception, the visual and textual arts have shared a complicated relationship – often mutually enriching, often fraught with a fierce competitiveness. Art and artistic expressions are one of the fundamental aspects of humanity and a portrayal of human creative ability. Art is showcased in what we do, our languages, our
In our times, increasingly urgent matters; questions of war and the more complex proposal of peace, critique of culture, political-economics, technoscience, culture, our geographic landscape, our local architectural designs, the flowers and trees, the mountains and rivers thriving within our surroundings and other wonderful
ethics, capital, the body, its languages and chemicals, calamity, catastrophe. Doing all? Impossible, balancing but blasting, but one radically hopes. What features.
picture do you see in your mind when you read this? You probably imagined the deep color of the ripe strawberries, the warmth of the summer sun, and perhaps An appreciation, awareness, appraisal, and understanding of this phenomenon give birth to poetry. Basically the essence of poetry is not just for its literary usage,
the feeling of the grainy smoothness of the fruit. Imagery in poetry creates similar snapshots in a reader's mind. according to Roman Jacobson, who considers literature of which poetry is a genre “To be an organized violence committed on ordinary speech'” but poetry in this

HOPE OF FUTURE: Nothing can come from nowhere, but rather everything has to come from something. Pictographic writing, which has been used for dimension could be seen as a better way of viewing nature and life in a more open-minded form in order to communicate social messages beneficial to all.
conveying utilitarian messages for millennia is typically considered unsuitable for rendering poetic metaphoric and abstract images. Each object in this world The picture on the other hand is the significant way of keeping history. Sethi Krishan Chand opined that: sometimes I feel pictures though being silent, speak much more
was made from something or made at some point in time and has since survived past that moment of origin. Every idea is shaped by the ideas of others, the than words, lines, and poems do.”As a matter of fact, the picture has an innate ability to make solemn expression and discussion in a subtle manner not requiring a voice
environment, and other influential conditions. It also makes me wonder, however, if maybe somehow these claims are true or possible. This twenty-first century
but making inference in the eyes of the beholder or observer. It is pertinent to note that pictures whether photography, artistic drawings, sketches, illustrations or paintings
not only turns a new page in the book of the world but opens another and a startling chapter. We have already seen proof of the vitality and practical value of
all have mood they express according to the reflective and critical comprehension of the concept by the photographer, artist, and the viewer. When one picks up a new
oriental painting for ourselves and as a key to the eastern soul. It may be worthwhile to approach their literature, the in tensest part of it, their poetry, even in an
book in a bookstore or library, one of the things the individual does is to look at the designs in the book. This has a way of subconsciously wooing the individual to buy or
imperfect manner.
read the book and vice versa.
CONCLUSION: A pictorial poetry is a perfect blend of literature and photography, a form of verse, naturally expressed, with passion and gusto. It light on
According to Edgar Dales' cone of experience “as human, we can retain and recall 30% of what we see. That is why the visual sense is very important. Learners in the
human relations and has also touched the issue of changing the face of human relationships. There is so much richness in pictorial poetry, so much beauty in
classroom are better stimulated to learn when visual materials are employed to aid teaching, saving the teacher from stress and time constraint.
the dream, so much dignity in our struggle, and so much universality in our problems, in us-in each living human being of color. The poems may be serious, sad,
funny, serene, about love, your cat, anything as long as you obey the above rule. Sethi Krishan Chand has proved himself to be an initiatior of this beautiful Pictorial poetry as a contemporary method of projecting poetry and picture viz-a-viz is now becoming a reliable tool for wider acceptance of poetry among individuals who
concept ''pictorial poetry in coffee table books" and widened the scope of coffee table book which were earlier limited to tourism, animal planet,wild life and find poetry boring or difficult to understand. One cannot deny the fact that as poetry is embedded in the picture, one's aesthetic ability is rekindled as one tries to explain
geography only. Along with his wife Mrs Sunita Sethi, created a history by birthing this new concept and made a world record through Golden Book of World the relationship between the picture and the expression written within its frame.
Records, Asia Book of Records and India Book of Records. For the sake of the study, pictorial poetry will be considered as an image representation of anything (drawing, painting and photograph) coupled with micro poem or
poetry(lines and stanza) upon a canvas, paper, camera (gallery) of mobile devices or other surface substantially available on social media and other environment. Sethi
Krishan Chand (2018), referred to pictorial poetry as “silent poems, speaking pictures”, describing the poem as the “soul” and the picture as “the body”, adding that,

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