Word: poeticisms
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...preceding the words and animating them is above all what Heaney calls “poetic emotion.” Since a poem has no will of its own, it’s a poets job to breathe life into it; this is not done by reflecting upon emotion or trying to recapture it “in tranquillity,” but by understanding the writing itself as a wholly new and active experience. Hence, ventures Heaney, writing begins with starting points like Yeats’ exaltation, Dickinson’s interior journeying or T.S. Eliot?...
...first, poetic sense, is an instinct particular to poets, a potential for expression, what Maritain called “an inner melody...
...irony of all of this is Kiarostami is a very apolitical director,” Pierce said. “His films are really meditations on human dilemmas, and depict the Iranian landscape in a very lyrical, poetic fashion...
...University of Georgia. Humble and soft-spoken, Barks acknowledges that his translations are often far from exact renditions of the Farsi of Rumi's day?which in any case he doesn't speak. To create them, he has used literal translations provided by others. Barks' emphasis on poetic essence over linguistic exactitude owes a strong debt to earlier poet-translators like Robert Bly, Kenneth Rexroth and Ezra Pound who championed a style of direct, aggressively unacademic translation. Following their example, Barks was able to create an American Rumi: one who speaks across the centuries with a voice as direct...
...years, Grolier Poetry Book Shop has been a site for poetic pilgrimage. Last night, its devotees ventured away from the shop’s cramped quarters on Plympton Street to the spacious Sanders Theatre, where its most famous patrons gathered to honor the anniversary...