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Research Paper on Pictorial Poetry

Damodar Boruah

EVOLUTION OF POETRY: The day men gained mental development; they started thinking to keep something for the next generations. As there was no paper, pencil then unlike
When today, they started carving in stones, inside caves in the form of symbols, pictures, picture stories. They had stories, songs, tales which told about their chronicle important events
in hunting, field, and so forth. Slowly language developed, storytellers started moving from place to place to tell old, newly added stories. These stories were in the form of rhyme
beauty is framed style for easy to remember and escalated to new boundaries. During fertile creative time and the Ancient Greece of open cities, the poetry spread. Like other arts and music, poetry
started taking momentum when people started depicting the inner and outer world of societies, influence and its gaining ground for progressive civilization. The poetic lyric of
Enheduanna and Sappho of Sumeria and Ancient Greece; the dramatic verse of Ancient Greek Playwrights, Homer's epics and Aesop's fables took poetry a new height. The
in words; boom of Renaissance, the emergence of the sonnet, roaring out of free verse early 19th-century Victorian era when intellectuals and students were more liberated, and poets
wanted to come out from old orthodox rhymed, measured lines and stanzas. They preferred poetry should be shorter, concise, elegant and beautiful. Modernist poets like W.B.
Yeats, Robert Frost, W.H Auden. Post-Modern era, after 1945 came famous Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac who brought new style and themes breaking previous prevalent
rules and regulation of poetry.
PRESENT POETRY: Undoubtedly present poetry is going at a fast pace. This paper is the outcome of this change. It's a good sign so many intellectuals are coming out to project
There is their views from love, humanity, politics, self-help, nature, spiritual, economy, society, science, undoubtedly it's a healthy sign and a new renaissance for the new world. Out of

newspaper, magazine, souvenir digital media especially taking a giant leap and whole world writers, poets, intellectuals have come together for uniform goal of noble world where
no need of everyone can open their voice, showcase their talents, where everyone has own respect irrespective of caste, creed, colors, sex, religion, place. What it's called after all? Texts,
pictures, animation, video have brought a new life in the poetry. A beginning of the new world, it's a question of 'Partially physical world or mostly virtually world ?' If balanced a great
day ahead for the new dimension of poetry in future.
any show off. PICTORIAL POETRY: The word 'pictorial', it's an adjective which means 'having to do with or using pictures' as per 'The New Pocket Oxford English Dictionary'. The word
'pictorial' also means 'of or relating to a painter, a painting, or the painting or drawing of pictures' (website: https:// www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pictorial). In the case of
'pictorial poetry,' it also means 'suggesting or conveying visual images'. In the First International Exhibition of Concrete and Kinetic Poetry in Cambridge in the year 1964, wherein
the English critic Mike Weaver distinguished three types of concrete poetry say visual(or optic), phonetic(or sound) and kinetic( moving in a visual succession). Since then this
important distinction has been accepted and its relevance even in the present awesome days of digital technology. To know more about 'pictorial poetry Weaver further says the
important feature of concrete poetry is the loss of use of texts or languages, it's degree depends upon poem and the poet. A poem can be reduced to a word, or letter or both being
able to convey messages with different patterns. 'Visual Poetry' is a development of 'Concrete Poetry' as many literary theorists say but it has the characteristics of 'Intermedia'
described by Dick Higgins in 1965, wherein non-representational and visual elements play an important role. Marry Ellen Solt did a survey on 'Concrete Poetry: A World
View(1968), she observed a new trend towards ' New Visual Poetry' in which the poetic function like orality are left behind, and is different from old form of shaped poetry from which
there had been a claim of Concrete Poetry is derived. On the other hand, Visual Poetry is different for its deployment of typography. Once Marvin A Sackner extended the definition

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