"Poetic language" refers to a way of writing or speaking that is more creative and expressive than regular everyday language. It often uses imagery, rhythm, and figures of speech to communicate ideas and emotions in a beautiful and artistic way.
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But don't get so caught up
in poetic language that you neglect to mention concrete skills and experience.
But
poetic language exists in large part to try to improve ordinary language on just this point: to convey the quality, the feel, of experience.
Excellent performances carry the sometimes difficult
poetic language of civilisation headbutting savagery.
Bisbee
uses poetic language, narrative imagery, and potent emblems to express his concern with our country's direction.
The short yet brilliant life story of Jean - Michel Basquiat and his determination to become an artist are revealed
through poetic language and illustrations dramatically influenced by Basquiat's own style.
So how can we as teachers foster close reading, overcome fear of the genre, and cultivate a love
for poetic language without getting bogged down in lessons that feel like dissection labs?
One particular influence was poet Charles Olson, who, in his essay «Projective Verse,» qualifies
poetic language as «energy transferred from where the poet got it... all the way over to, the reader... a high - energy construct and, at all points, an energy - discharge.»
qualifies poetic language as «energy transferred from where the poet got it... all the way over to, the reader... a high - energy construct and, at all points, an energy - discharge.»
When Stevens's first book of poems, Harmonium, appeared in 1923, the tepid reviews interpreted him as an aesthete, whose
obscure poetic language and odd verse rhythms might be modern, but whose principles belonged to the dandy days of Oscar Wilde.
This entity consists already not only of the six tribes which «offered themselves willingly» (5:2,9) but also — since their failure to join Deborah is implicitly deemed to be a breach of integrity — four tribes which are specifically rebuked (and in such
exquisitely poetic language, vv.
There follows then a lengthy poem too long to quote simply describing in
beautiful poetic language what has here been narrated.
In this combination of anthology and commentary, Felstiner argues that
poetic language effectively leads people to appreciate nature, recognize the imperiled state of the environment, and take steps toward better stewardship of the world.
The subtleties of their expressions carry the emotional tenor of the text, and the displaced,
poetic language makes audible the inherent theatricality of political speech and public protest.
Poets are collaborating to establish new styles and a
new poetic language, in addition to their unique visions.
Through
gorgeous poetic language, and no - holds - barred examination of emotion (and their consequences), Nelson reminds us that we can only ever know our own perspective, and that seeking out other people's is the key to seeing the whole picture, and to survival.
In shimmering,
almost poetic language, author Rebecca Hahn tells an epic tale of love and death and life within the deceptively simple story of a forbidden friendship between a mortal teenage girl and the immortal life - weavers of Greek mythology.
Exciting,
poetic language describes a mysterious, ultragreen object, an object so green that it incorporates the green of grapes, green moths, traffic lights, ocean waves, and a gaping Komodo dragon.
«Emezi has established herself as a young writer to watch with an engrossing tale of identity, mental illness and spirituality... Emezi's careful structuring and
poetic language provides a pleasing balance to keep us stabilized as we reach toward high planes.
Russian linguist Roman Jakobson once
delineated poetic language from that of quotidian communication, positing that, like a Cubist painting, poeticity can produce a contradiction between sign and object that is mutually mobilizing.
A central figure in the emergence of Conceptual art in United States during the «60s, Lawrence Weiner has garnered immense recognition and acclaim with his wall stencils in which the gnarly paths of
poetic language occupy gallery and museum interiors.
Whereas in the
past poetic language was deliberately oblique, now it has become clearer and more readily accessible.
With this exhibition Jonas evokes the fragility of nature, using her
own poetic language to address the irreversible impact of human interference on the environmental equilibrium of our planet.
Fragments of
poetic language cohere with her visual iconography to produce nonlinear narratives of «unforeseen desire and untimely loss,» offering audiences untold tales from both collectively imagined pasts and distant futures.
after, aims to
use poetic language and spatial layout to make that concept tangible with specific references to square movements — protest movements such as in Egypt, Tehran, and Ferguson, MO..
Doing justice to its title, the exhibition manifests tactility, rupture and composure, encapsulating both Adkins» interest in manual production and utilization of surfaces
for poetic language.
Michelson writes
in poetic language that gracefully uses repetitive sentence structures and themes to emphasize the similarities between the two men's lives.
If you're Bradbury you convey an awful lot
through poetic language and implication, which is why his stories are shorter.
Conceiving abstraction as the critical and
poetic language of potential allows her to pierce the detached geometries of ordering structures, making them responsive and more pliable.
He wants to argue that mercy is not just important in the Bible's story of our salvation, where God is sometimes described anthropomorphically or in
poetic language, but that in precise theological terms mercy is the highest perfection of God.
Andy says:
Poetic language will always borrow from culture, but the danger is that the emotions of a romance are expected to be a measure of our devotion, when we all know that emotions ebb and flow.
Behind
the poetic language and imagery Chardin depicts creation as an evolutionary process with the existence of matter as the necessary precondition for the appearance on earth of spirit, and describes matter as the «matrix of spirit» in which life emerges and is supported.
Religious language, he notes, is closely related to
poetic language, as distinct from both «ordinary» language and «scientific» language.
That is not to say that
poetic language is nebulous, vague, uncertain: on the contrary, the cutting edge of great poetry is sharper and digs deeper than that of any prose.
The aim of scientific language is to provide exactly defined and unambiguous statements about reality; that of
poetic language is to communicate reality itself, as experienced, by means of imagery, evocation, tone, and the ambiguity — or rather ambivalence — of paradox, of symbol.
Now the third level of consciousness that I want to lift out of Frye's analysis he calls the level of imagination, and the appropriate speech for this level is what he calls «
poetic language.»
It is
poetic language that represents both what is hoped for and what is feared.