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straight if they can give it a little twist. Such tendencies make you want to lay hands on a lexicon, where the facts are. The hassle with this approach is, most of the
definitions of poetry are so inadequate, they eventually send you back to beating the bushes. The use of pictures of poetic diction leaves a poem open to multiple
interpretations and extra edges like metaphor and simile.
Laterally, the introduction of computers, laptops, smart phones, internet and the rise of the poetry reading have led to a revival of performance poetry and have resulted in
Research Paper on Pictorial Poetry
a situation where poetry for the eye and poetry for the ear coexist. Poetry is arguably more popular today than at any other point in history. We consume it without even
thinking about it. Poetry was once written according to fairly strict rules of meter and rhyme, and each culture had its own rules. Some forms of poetry are specific to
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particular cultures and genres, responding to the characteristics of the language in which the poet writes. Since the beginning of the Twentieth century, there have been
many changes to the way poetry is written and read. During this period poets continued to break away from the established forms and structures that had been used
during the previous literary periods. They believed poetry can come in just about any form imaginable. They mean, literally any form. They were all about finding new VISUAL THOUSAND THOUGHTS OF PICTORIAL POETRY AS CREATED
ways to express themselves. In Poetry, the weaves of words, the fluctuating passions it connotes, forms a definitive languages that leave a reader in a trance of intoxicating involvement, while in
In today's increasingly globalized world, poetry often adapts even new forms, styles and techniques from diverse cultures and languages. Pictorial poetry is also one of its Pictorial Poetry, the movement of colours move like a passing wind, where even the slight slant of highlight creates an illusion of language, of whispers, and the totality of
new kind which is gaining ground. the rendered picture pregnant into multi- ambiguous perceptions of the onlooker… a result of reminiscence of moments.
The Pictorial Poetry is visual in words to paint the poetic imagery. Pictorial artist in words, as well as pictures, excel in giving even abstract ideas and objects a concrete Where in poetry, the sounds of the word create the signified, in Pictorial Poetry, it is the sight that pounds situates the heart back to some historical events, not that are no
more, but rather what was… whether national or personal, in varied dimensional passion. The play of light and shadows, the boldness, dullness, contrast of colours, the
shape. These delight in all sorts of beauty as well as of manner and present them in a pictorial paint of words. The sensitivity to beauty, an ability to render this in his words
comparative sizing of images, the distance of objects; the balance and symmetry of colours and objects, matter so much in the expression of strength and weakness of the
with the help of images, a sense of form and proportion, a vivid imagination and an ability to apply appropriate words is a great experience.
signified it wants to project.
The Pictorial Poetry is a descriptive vividness which has hardly any equal. A thing or an object appears in it with its relevant pictures and suitable words have its own
In poetry it is the pleasure of the text, in pictorial poetry, it is the tempting colour or the contrast of black and white that renders the wholeness of signification. In poetry, the
impact. One can create striking imagery with the blend of words and pictures. It creates suitable snapshots in a reader's mind to reach the depth of words and perhaps the
author has a free hand to depict his passion fantasy illusion as a result of some empirical knowledge or dreams… thereby resonates with those readers who find
warmth of the feelings with the help of pictures. It draws readers into a sensory experience. Images will often provide us with mental snapshots that appeal to our senses of
themselves as the signified. In Pictorial Poetry, especially those that are actually stolen shots or shoots of nature, it depicts an era that may have been forgotten but an
sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. In essence, images show us meaning; when we compare the snapshots in our mind to our own memories or experiences, we
existence that can't be denied. I recently received a photo from a friend which I can't remember at all when and where it was shot—wherein if I would just be told, I would
connect emotionally to the poem. certainly deny knowing or remembering it, yet I am in the picture, my face is there and he, (my friend) is there beside me, __ in that place I can't at all recall, a kind of pictorial
"A poem speaks a thousand words and A picture is a worth a thousand words" poetry that would classify as an epic poetry if woven in text, in pictorial poetry, it can't be called 'the past' but rather, the 'that has been'.

Pictorial Poetry exposes us to new experiences and reveals our own experiences in a new poetic light. It is one the most efficient and unique tool of the modern poetry. There is an old photograph was done in sepia of my great-grandmother, her knee-length hair; the huge butterfly sleeves of her 'saya' (gown) starched as stiff as an
airplane wings; the skirt has a one meter tail hugging her 5' stature; holding a huge Spanish silk fan, a punkah, that almost covered her slender body, which connotes the
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sensualism of our women during the 'has been era'… not the past era, because it is still that era. A picture or a photograph becomes a whole story , a novel , an essay, a
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poem by itself: a picture that would show the kind of tree, how it is arranged and planted; the clothing fashion; the facial expression; the body language; the timid smile, the
Jaweed Ahmed is a versatile poet and a writer from Hyderabad who has written more than Two thousand poems and numerous articles in English so far. Many of his vulgar laughter; the antiquity or modernism of furniture; are elements that speak the pictorial poetry.
poems and articles are published in National and International Magazines and Anthologies. He has published his own book "Peerless Pearls". He is known for his own According to the famous French Philosopher Poet Essayist Writer, Roland Barthes, who published a book called CAMERA LUCIDA, imposing the distribution of
lucid style. photography as to empirical (professionals / amateurs); rhetorical ( landscapes / portraits /nudes); aesthetic (realism / pictorialism), claims the object or subject being

photographed is external to the intent and essence the picture would produce… meaning if i am posing before a camera, i project not the natural me but the best posture I
can make of myself to appear in the picture, or if it is a landscape, it is what the lens can accommodate in its opening, in short, the subject/object, the signified, is external to
the signification of its essence, which is but only in the mind of the signifier, the photographer. This is best exampled by my presentation of my great grandmother's portrait,
wherein my great grandmother was external to the essence of how her portrait would message, it is but only the signifier, the so-called pictorial poet who could see the

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