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When Research Paper on Pictorial Poetry

Anu Chatterjee
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TAKING ONE STEP FORWARD IN REALM OF CELEBRATING MODERN LITERATURE
tell a tale ABSTRACT

Pictorial Poetry is a treasure of wisdom which captures the mood hidden behind photographs. Photographs are expressive when it focuses on activities which can lead to
of your love; transformation in the society. When poetry is resurrecting and emphasizing on feelings which cannot be explained through words, then pictorial poetry can magnify
angles which remain hidden. Pictorial poetry can lead to change in outlook of literature. Thus, it is important to discuss whether pictorial poetry might help in shaping
society for acknowledging its humanitarian principles.
Keywords: Poetry, Pictorial Poetry, Humanity, Society, Literature
Poets can get inspiration from photographs and photographers can find their muse in poetry. Every form of art requires certain amount of visualization along with
Your foresightedness. Often, poetry and photography come under visual-spatial intelligence. Visual spatial intelligence focuses on a person's ability to understand, remember,
and recall spatial relations among objects, and forming vivid images to explain something lucidly. Pictorial poetry can emphasize on describing images while looking at
photographs and amplifying the strengths of poetry by using photographs as a tool to make readers aware about essence of the poetry. Pictorial poetry has enormous
eagerness capacity to project a poet's feeling via using various angles to view a photograph.

Visual poetry is not just about describing vivid images in poetic form. But, photographs can help poets to explain 'feelings with no name'. Hereby, photographs are often
speaks in your used as a tool of expression which gets its description from a poem. Photographs may help poets to visualize various angles which might help them in composing unique
poetry which can reclaim space in contemporary literature. This new mode of composing poetry can bring literary revolution and can help in transforming essence of
poetry.
silent words REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Johanna Drucker examined visual poetry as 'a vocal score of tone or personality'. Visual poetry focuses on representing themes, subjects, or sentiments of words in a
variety of shapes and forms. In pictorial poetry, pictures act as imagery and a poet simply describes those images in a poetic form. It is a simplified version of visual poetry
which can seek reader's attention without failing.
John Keats has been using pictorial poetry via blending poetry and visual arts. According to Sharma (2017), Keats is a pictorial artist who gave concrete shape to abstract
ideas and objects. Keats's interest in pictorial poetry developed when he studied poets like Spenser, who had pictorial appeal. Also, he found his poetic muse from several
paintings of Titian, Raphael, etc. Hunt was Keats's mentor and he guided him to appreciate pictures. Keats visited art galleries and gave shape to poems via using pictures
displayed in art galleries. Thus, visualization can help in seeking inspiration and every form of art is based on visualizing and appreciating other forms of art. The pictures

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