Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reader . . . may be perplexed and puzzled at my use of the comma: it is a new, special and poetic use to which I have put it. The commas appear in the poems functionally, and thus not for eccentricity; and they are there also poetically, that is to say, not in their prose function. These poems were conceived with commas, as 'comma poems,' in which the commas are an integral and essential part of the medium: regulating the poem's verbal density and time movement: enabling each word to attain a fuller tone value, and the line movement...
With his magnum opus, Faust, which he began in his 20s and worked over repeatedly until just before his death at 82, Goethe raised a poetic monument to himself that is comparable to those of England's Shakespeare and Italy's Dante. An ardent sideline scientist (he discovered that the intermaxillary bone in apes was also present in a rudimentary form in man, and developed a new theory regarding the nature of colors), he took special delight in noting the similarities that related phenomena of the most diverse kinds. When his son, August, showed no particular interest...
...dreams fumed") and atmosphere, but Morgan's poem, especially his second "Tune" shows the greater sensitivity. John C. Fiske makes the standard reply to William Carlos Williams in his "Lines" to that poet ("Let us not call traditional forms a crime/Lest innovation be the thief of rime") but his poetic rebuttal is too contrived to be successful...
...Richards, had been exploring the wide range of meanings that various minds can find in the simplest verse. Empson took up the subject and exhausted it. Some readers complained Poet-Mathematician Empson had "read things into poetry that weren't there," erecting double or multiple meanings into a poetic principle...
...murals heavily influenced the WPA muralists who spread their work across the walls of U.S. post offices in the 1930s. About the same time, his own became increasingly complicated. He started spelling things out-caricaturing his personal and political enemies, deifying his heroes -and his paintings lost their poetic savor. But if his art was no longer so lyrical, Rivera's mural in Mexico City's old National Palace still made powerful prose. So did the clamorous panels he painted in the Detroit Institute of Arts to celebrate the machine age. His next job, in Rockefeller Center...