Prose Poetry

Paragraphs that tell a Composed of line w/ no beginning

story middle and end

There are unnecessary A moment of brilliance and

parts perfection so everything is vital.

can easily follow while Demands focus while reading

reading because of its difficulty.

Exper -immersing yourself in what is happening in the

ience poem
-doesnt concern in finding what the poem actually
means
-revelling in the moment of reading a poem
-Different experience for different people
-No 1-1 correspondence with an object or image to an
experience.
Reso -the reverberation that the poem has made in you
nanc while reading it
e -How you find yourself in the process of reading the
poem
-Poem finding something in you
-fracture within us while reading
-poetry must be expressed in both UNIVERSAL and
PARTICULAR
-the poet and the reader gives new personal insight
on a universally accepted concept
-brings novelty to the work
-Resonance loses its power to find a natural
frequency in people when something becomes clich
Distill - ridding of unwanted/extraneous things to
ation understand poetry in its particulate form
of -since poem is the purest form of language which we
Lang want to express an experience
uage - Words, punctuations etc. are not in the customary
form
-to get to the point where language is so pure that
there is no other way to say it.
-it cannot be paraphrased because it is complete in
itself

Poetic Impulse

Introduc -letting the poem show itself to you

tion to -to prance around the poems surface and not
Poetry force some meaning out of it
-losing yourself in the text
(poem- -Resonance will never happen when youre
color suspicious of the poem.
slide) -appreciate poems first
(ear-hive) -poems are aesthetic rather than
(mouse- cognitive;elusive
us) -Goal of poetry is to familiarize the things that we
(poem- already know
maze) -to lengthen our perception
(poem- -what is important is not the one being
dark understood but the process of understanding it.
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(water
ski)
Persona and the Dramatic Situation (DS)
First, a Magical, Musical, Brightness moving, birds Las Ruinas -Juana the Mad
poem flowering, holds secret, slender bell, hold fire, Del Corazon Alhambra, Saint Ursula, Saint Susana
must be bow (wisdom and constancy), rose, dove and Philip @ 28
You Who -The person is looking for someone who
magical deer, hide seek bride
Never Arrived will never arrive and will never have
-god-poem creating and reading is a divine
-hopefullness & desperation are the same
activity
Let me -getting rid of misconceptions thing in the poem
tell you -finding our existence/selves in the -beloved is lost from the start
Tonight I can -poetic utterance in failed relationships
what a mist/ambiguity of the poem
Write the -a certain death, how persons of different
poem -mist becomes the unifying factor binding
Sddest Lines walks of life deal with death
brings everything
Wishbone -Beloved is Henry
-toxic and masochistic persona
Persona Poet Speaker Imagery and the Figurative Language
-The voice -The author of the -the one Metaph -makes use of our familiarity of things to
-the character poem delivering the text or describe something unfamiliar
being shown to us -may or may not -the one that -loses value the moment we are already familiar
in the poem be represented bu addresses the Linguisti -summoning of a new meaning through an
-the one the persona readers c image or figure
undergoing the lacuna
Drinking -imagery is hallucination/drunkedness
dramatic situation
Prose poetry alone
-used when a certain reality that the poembyis trying
-imagesto only last in your drunked state
convey is to be respected. midnigh
t
-when metaphors and figures of speech just gets in the way
A sketch -the way we approach love poems might be
of the message the author is trying to convey
for a wrong
-it does disservice to the message being converyed by the
modern -telling us something that which is not
poem.
love -describing something by the absence of
-No more room for interruptions
poem something else
-presents a limit to poetry depending on the themes it is
-mo 1-1 correspondence between an image and
tryig to convey.
a reality
-a moral responsibility of the poem to tell things as they are.
-Cybele
Wishbon -Beloved is Henry
e -toxic and masochistic persona
Cinnamo -DS- wants to mark his territory, possess the
Form -Content actually dictates n Peeler beloved, but bounded by society
the form of poetry
Imagism -Belief and dependence in the capacity of the
image
-use of very clear, precise language
-getting rid of unnecessary details that wont
contribute to the image
-respect for image
-employs enjambment
-the retardation of image formation
-allows for gradual and more focused revelation
of the image
Haiku -Suggestive nature and hence its minimal form
-dont have to paint the entire image
-deliver immense feeling in its brevity
-the cultural significance of the form to
Japanese
-that they dont battle nature but letting it show
itself to them
-indicative of the Japanese culture
Sonnet -form that allows for a certain kind of
elaboration of insight
-3 quatrains
-iambic pentameter lines
-mimics how people speak
-used when something needs to be articulated
and a certain progression is needed