Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this difficult task, Pelli proved an excellent choice. His signature material is glass, and he is one of the very few architects who can still squeeze some poetic drops from the overworked convention of the curtain wall. Basically, he does this by playing down the frame of mullions and spandrels and emphasizing the wall's nature as a pictorial surface, a sheet rilled with color patches and reflections. MOMA'S street façades, sheathed in blue-gray and white glass, extend and echo the window bands of the 1939 facade on the lower floors; and when...
These advertisements are almost prose poems. They give the word soap suds a bubbly shiny individual meaning which is very skillfully poetic, would perhaps be quite poetic to the mind, which could forget that the poetry was bait on a hook." --D.H. Lawrence, "Pornography and Obscenity...
...Poetic technique, however, is difficult to pin down. Lowell's language sometimes becomes clunky and almost anti-lyrical. But Williamson argues that this quality mirrors a disintegration of consciousness--or, more appropriately, a new realization of the discontinuities of consciousness. It is refreshing that Williamson distinguishes between the deliberate use of anti-lyricism as a technique and the recurrent inattention to poetic technique that characterizes the poets of bad surrealism. Clumsy diction can illustrate the disintegration of consciousness and some poets even use language as a weapon against itself, as James Wright, Galway Kinnell, and Robert Bly do at times...
...transcends his isolation by projecting himself outwards, at the same time engaging the reader in the transformation. Lapses in personal poetry, then, can be either failures at any step of this ritual--such as the unquestioning immersion in narcissism which leads to psychic laundry lists--or simple failures of poetic technique...
...think the school tries to produce students that have a level of competency, but you ought to be more than competent--you ought to be poetic," says fourth-semester architecture student Jonathan Marvel. "The school tries to do everything, and in doing so I think it loses a lot in the field of theory...