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They rejected Romantic and Victorian conventions, favoring precise imagery and clear, non-elevated language. [61] Ezra Pound formulated and promoted many precepts and ideas of Imagism. His "In a Station of the Metro" (Roberts & Jacobs, 717), written in 1916, is often used as an example of Imagist poetry: The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Dark Romanticism is a literary sub-genre of Romanticism, reflecting popular fascination with the irrational, the demonic and the grotesque. Often conflated with Gothic fiction , it has shadowed the euphoric Romantic movement ever since its 18th-century beginnings.
Sonnet 127 of Shakespeare's sonnets (1609) is the first of the Dark Lady sequence (sonnets 127–152), called so because the poems make it clear that the speaker's mistress has black hair and eyes and dark skin. [2] In this poem the speaker finds himself attracted to a woman who is not beautiful in the conventional sense, and explains it by ...
This is a list of Surrealist poets, known for writing material within the Surrealist cultural movement that began in the early 1920s. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Characters in epic poems (23 C, 21 P) S. Dr. Seuss characters (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Characters in poems" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of ...
Critic Charles R. Anderson, in Emily Dickinson's Poetry: Stairway of Surprise, claimed it was Dickinson's "finest poem on despair." [15] Similarly, Inder Nath Kher, in The Landscape of Absence: Emily Dickinson’s Poetry, lauds it as one of Emily Dickinson's best poems and a well-balanced expression of absence and presence. [16]
The poem is one of Li's shi poems, structured as a single quatrain in five-character regulated verse with a simple AABA rhyme scheme (at least in its original Middle Chinese dialect as well as the majority of contemporary Chinese dialects). It is short and direct in accordance with the guidelines for shi poetry, and cannot be conceived as ...
It is a new oral poetry originating in the 1980s in Austin, Texas, using the speaking voice and other theatrical elements. Practitioners write for the speaking voice instead of writing poetry for the silent printed page. The major figure is American Hedwig Gorski who began broadcasting live radio poetry with East of Eden Band during the early ...