poems
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Four Essential Questions about Poetry
Why is ordinary language inadequate to express our deepest thoughts? It isn’t that ordinary language isn’t adequate, but rather that symbolic language and imagery can more efficiently invoke a specific understanding or emotion in the reader. For example, when you read a well crafted metaphor your comprehension of the topic is built upon by bringing… Continue reading
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More Thoughts on Eternal Human Themes: Classic Poet Dickinson and Instagram Writer Kate Baer
While different thematic movements in poetry utilize different strategies to create meaning, the art that results has often challenged social conventions in the same way. Romanticism and the poets of the movement enforced strict boundaries around creating poetry from how many syllables there could be per line, rhyme structures, and stanza structures. Modernist poets have… Continue reading
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