The Top Three Features of Poetry
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The Top Three Features of Poetry
1. The poets show their preference for open vowel sounds, rich and fluid feminine endings, and the balance of phrase and clause. The poems aptly reveal the musical ear of these artists. The sound effects contribute to the final impact of the poems. It is difficult to agree with an uninspiring nihilism of Jean Baudrillard “Everything has already happened…nothing new can occur.” Great poetry is full of moral ideas; ‘the idea is the fact’. Nancy Scheper-Hughes (b. 1944) wisely says: “If we cannot begin to think about social institutions and practices in moral or ethical terms, then anthropology strikes me as quite weak and useless.”
2. The images in a poem become a true mark of true genius, when they are moulded by the passion present in the poet’s mind. S. T. Coleridge (1772-1834) says, “ Images, however, beautiful and true to nature and accurately presented in words, do not of themselves become a mark of poetic excellence. They become proofs of original genius only when they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts images are awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant, or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet’s own spirit.”
3. The “predominant passion” in a poet’s mind should be universal peace, brotherhood and adoration of the poorest of the poor. This perspective seems to have changed during the postmodern era of computers and photography. Baudrillard affirms that we now live not in a world of images, but only simulations. Jacques Derrida (b. 1930) raises doubts about the validity of the printed text itself; he warns us against the text employing its own stratagems.
1. The poets show their preference for open vowel sounds, rich and fluid feminine endings, and the balance of phrase and clause. The poems aptly reveal the musical ear of these artists. The sound effects contribute to the final impact of the poems. It is difficult to agree with an uninspiring nihilism of Jean Baudrillard “Everything has already happened…nothing new can occur.” Great poetry is full of moral ideas; ‘the idea is the fact’. Nancy Scheper-Hughes (b. 1944) wisely says: “If we cannot begin to think about social institutions and practices in moral or ethical terms, then anthropology strikes me as quite weak and useless.”
2. The images in a poem become a true mark of true genius, when they are moulded by the passion present in the poet’s mind. S. T. Coleridge (1772-1834) says, “ Images, however, beautiful and true to nature and accurately presented in words, do not of themselves become a mark of poetic excellence. They become proofs of original genius only when they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts images are awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant, or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet’s own spirit.”
3. The “predominant passion” in a poet’s mind should be universal peace, brotherhood and adoration of the poorest of the poor. This perspective seems to have changed during the postmodern era of computers and photography. Baudrillard affirms that we now live not in a world of images, but only simulations. Jacques Derrida (b. 1930) raises doubts about the validity of the printed text itself; he warns us against the text employing its own stratagems.
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Jacques Derrida (b. 1930) raises doubts about the validity of the printed text itself; he warns us against the text employing its own stratagems. This postmodern concept seems to have shaken the traditional perspective of poetry.
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