The shape of poetry
"The image is the poet's pigment
The image is not an idea,
It is a radiant node or cluster;
A vortex through which and from which and into which ideas are constantly rushing.
It is as true for painting and sculpture as it is for poetry."
- Ezra Pound
When it comes to shaping my poetry and breaking the lines, my approach so far has been pretty basic. I've noticed that my poems tend to look fairly similar on the page; The lines are usually of similar length and my punctuations are almost always at the end of a line rather than somewhere in the middle. Occasionally I've been experimenting with the lineation, but reading the handouts given to us in class, I've realised just how tame those attempts have been.
My realist poem was meant to convey an emotion of unease so I broke up my stanzas to take the form of a saw, but even then the shape is regular enough to not really challenge the stable sense of symmetry.
I've always thought about the way I shape my stanzas to be based off of a sense of rhythm, but after reading about the different ways to approach lineation, perhaps it is even more connected to how I perceive my own length of breath. In order to determine that though I need to read more of my poems out loud.
The image is not an idea,
It is a radiant node or cluster;
A vortex through which and from which and into which ideas are constantly rushing.
It is as true for painting and sculpture as it is for poetry."
- Ezra Pound
When it comes to shaping my poetry and breaking the lines, my approach so far has been pretty basic. I've noticed that my poems tend to look fairly similar on the page; The lines are usually of similar length and my punctuations are almost always at the end of a line rather than somewhere in the middle. Occasionally I've been experimenting with the lineation, but reading the handouts given to us in class, I've realised just how tame those attempts have been.
My realist poem was meant to convey an emotion of unease so I broke up my stanzas to take the form of a saw, but even then the shape is regular enough to not really challenge the stable sense of symmetry.
I've always thought about the way I shape my stanzas to be based off of a sense of rhythm, but after reading about the different ways to approach lineation, perhaps it is even more connected to how I perceive my own length of breath. In order to determine that though I need to read more of my poems out loud.
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