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moonlight room, pale, chill and silent as a tomb, Madeline on whose fair breast the wintry moon threw its light and whose rich attire came rustling to her knees etc.
While giving us the pictures of inanimate objects, Keats often invests them with life and with the power to feel, see and think so as to make his pictures more vivid. He tells
of dead and senseless things in terms of life, movement and feeling. Another point about Keat's pictorial quality is that most of his pictures are sensuous in appeal. We can
feel the sense of smell, sense of hearing, sense of taste and sense of hearing through his words. In the Ode To Autumn, the first stanza is a rich feast of apples, grapes,
Research Paper on Pictorial Poetry hazles, gourd and honey. In the Ode to Psyche, we have several concrete and sensuous pictures. There is a lovely picture of Cupid and Psyche lying in an embrace in the

deep grass. The Ode to Nightingale contains some of the finest pictures of Keats. Provencal wine or the red wine from the fountain of the Muses have a rich appeal. Then
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there is the magnificent picture of the moon shining in the sky and surrounded by stars.
Nowadays, we cannot imagine to compose a poem without pictorial element. And the guide, inspirator and originator of this pictorial poetry concept is none other than Mr
WHAT IS POETRY? K.C. Sethi and Sunita Sethi, his better half, in this 21st century. This talented personality has really proved to be a great initiator of pictorial poetry wherein poetry and
The word 'Poetry' has been derived from the Greek word 'Poieo' that means I create. It is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities with its photography blend together to make wonderful creations. Mr. Sethi speaks, “Sometimes, I feel pictures though being silent, speak much more than the words, lines and
theoretical and semantic subject. It is such kind of literary works in which vocabularies are used in such a way is felt by the reader and listeners to differ from ordinary poems do.”Lifetime career awardee from Galatone, Italy, Mr. Sethi further speaks on his concept, “A close description of a picture reveals its own story which is converted
prose. Sometimes, it seems emotional to the listener, as well as the readers. Poetry counts on several things like, imagery, word association, repetition, the musical into verses those who speak through the characters involved in the pictures.” We are known to the fact that this untiring couple has struggled hard to make this concept a
qualities of the language used. trend for the pictorial poetry lovers and compilers. Hence, Mr. K.C. Sethi has been regarded the 'Father of Pictorial Poetry'. He has been honoured by the Prime Minister of
Portugal.
In most poetry, it is the connotations and the baggage that words carry (the weight of words) that are most important. The meaning and significance of any poetry seem
different to the different readers. Poetry can be differentiated from prose. Prose uses a language which is meant to convey meaning in a more expansive way, often using Poets use imagery to draw readers into a sensory experience. Images often provide us with mental snapshots that appeal to our senses of sight, sound, taste, touch and
more complete, logical or narrative structures than, a poetry does. This does not necessarily mean that poetry is illogical. English Romantic poet John Keats termed this smell. In essence, images show us meaning, when we compare the snapshots in our mind to our own memories or experiences, we connect emotionally to the poem.
kind of logical escape as logic Negative Capability. A further complication is that prose poetry combines the characteristics of poetry with the superficial appearance of Most of the poems are brief, a poet has to create an entire world for the reader in a few short lines and images or even the story that arises from a series of images. It is the
prose, such as, Robert Frost's poem, “Home Burial.” There are other forms of poetry like, narrative poetry and dramatic poetry which are used to tell stories. Thus, theyare most efficient way of communication.
similar to novels and plays. “Great” poetry generally captures images vividly and in an original, refreshing way, while weaving together an intricate combination of CONCLUSION
elements like, theme tension, complex emotion and profound reflective thought. The Greek verb, poieo gave rise to three words, poiet which means one who creates,
To cope up with the evolving society, poetry has also shaped itself in new forms. But, it is reshaping itself with beautiful imageries, animation, cartoons, graphics, etc.
poiesis that means the act of creation, and poiema which means the thing created. From these we get three English words: poet, poesy and poem.
which have immense power to attract the readers. K.C. Sethi's “Coffee Table Books” is a brilliant example of pictorial poetry, that reflects and encourages us to embrace
PICTORIAL COMPOSITION the new and wonderful form of poetry.
Poetry in English and other modern European languages often use rhymes. Rhymes at the end of lines are the basis of a number of common poetic forms such as ballads,
sonnets and rhyming couplets. However, the use of rhyme is not universal. Now-a-days, modern poetry avoids traditional rhyme scheme.

According to Henry Rankin Poore, a painting's technique, colour and perspective may be excellent, yet the painting will fail unless its composition succeeds. Henry Poore
examines the works of old masters and modern painters in his book, “Pictorial Composition: An Introduction” and uses these examples to explain the principles of
compositions in art.
The pictorial element has been used by the great poets like Keats, Spenser, William Wordsworth, Jonathan Swift, W.H. Auden and so on in earlier times. Keats is one of
the greatest world painters in English poetry. The pictorial quality in his poetical work stands above all its other qualities. Each picture is remarkable for its vividness and
minuteness in detail.
The Eve of St. Agnes is full of pictures. We have the hare limping through the frozen grass, the aged creature Angela “shuffling along with ivory headed wand”, the little

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