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Research Paper on Pictorial Poetry

Jyotirmaya Thakur, UK

KRISHAN CHAND SETHI -” A PICTORIAL GALLERY OF POETRY ".
ABSTRACT
“Word painters are born with a special gift
Their fine hearts recite Spring in Winter to uplift.
Their portrait in words create sonnets of love,
In wartime, hatred flies the peace of dove.
Their words breathe stories in autumn get together
“When dry leaves fall quote operas on beautiful feathers”.
In 'The Word Painters' by Jyotirmaya Thakur expresses the power of poetry as painting can take readers to a magical wonderland of ecstasy.
Mr. Krishnan Chand Sethi does exactly that through his coffee table pictorial poetry books. Man is born with the natural instinct of imitation and everyone has a subjective
perception because of his limitations of vision and imagination. Art in any form is a means of communication and pictorial poetry has become vogue by exploring the fusion
of photographs with rhymes so the speaking pictures are now combined with the melody of sounds. The spirit of the picture is enriched and imbibed in a verbal
philosophical, intellectual and emotive textual expression taking it to the much higher level of simplistic understanding. Nature has always inspired art in its grandeur and
the changing literature in this digital era exploits the concept of mixing poetry with pictures giving a cinematic effect.
The precursor of the Romantic period William Blake did combine his creativity of portraits and poetry in a very imaginative way to bring a revolution for social change.
Keywords: Creativity, Nature, Imitation, Imagination, Imagery, Painting, Pictorial poetry.
INTRODUCTION
Emily Romano is said to be the founder of pictorial poetry. The concept of vivid poetry with imagery and help of figures of speech has been prevalent from the
Renaissance, and in Metaphysical Poetry the similes and metaphors take a tremendous flight of imagination creating mental pictures for better understanding. The
pictorial poetry has become very much similar, parallel or complimentary in nature to capture the beauty of human versatility of complex life in simplicity. Pictorial poetry
imitates and refers to media products that are static in the material modalities, such as paintings, photographs, pictures or sketches. John Keats reflection -”Beauty is
truth and truth is beauty “ is very aesthetically presented in pictorial poetry. Nature and surroundings have always inspired poets to dwell in a realm of reality and become a
part of human awe-inspiring lyrics of immortal history. Keats was inspired by his daily walk through Cathedral close to writing an Ode -'To Autumn”, which is also an Ode to
the city of Winchester –
“Hedge-crickets sing: and now with treble soft

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