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Years later, Ashbery developed mixed feelings about the title poem of Self-Portrait, finding it to be too much like an essay and too remote in style from the rest of his body of work. [72] In March 2005, the Academy of American Poets included it in a list of 31 "Groundbreaking Books" of American poetry.
The portrait, as a literary genre, is a written description or analysis of a person or thing. A written portrait often gives deep insight, and offers an analysis that goes far beyond the superficial. It is considered a parallel to pictorial portraiture. The imitation of painting is apparent in the name of the genre itself, which is a painting term.
Self-portrait; Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery: the portrait is the subject of a long poem in a poetry collection by Ashbery, both the poem and the collection of the same name. The book won all three of the major prizes awarded to collections by American poets.
In fact, the poem is Josuah Sylvester's translation of a French devotional poem by Simon Goulart. [7] Roger B. Stein finds that 'the poem is the central organizing element, the key to the picture—to its design, to the relationship of its parts to one another, and to its meaning both as individual work and as an artefact within its larger ...
Portrait of a Man (Baldung) Portrait of a Man (Frans Hals, Frick) Portrait of a Man (Parmigianino) Portrait of a Man with a Glove; Portrait of a Man Holding Gloves; Man in a Hammock; Portrait of a Man in a Red Hat; Portrait of a Man in a Red Suit; Man on a Balcony; Man with a Beer Jug; Man with a Glove; A Man with a Quilted Sleeve; Portrait of ...
Pope's Essay on Man and Moral Epistles were designed to be the parts of a system of ethics which he wanted to express in poetry. Moral Epistles has been known under various other names including Ethic Epistles and Moral Essays. On its publication, An Essay on Man received great admiration throughout Europe.
The poems appear to be full of heartbreak but they never become pessimistic. An example of this is his poem "Praise of a Man" which was quoted by Gordon Brown in the eulogy he gave at the funeral of Robin Cook in 2005: [ 6 ]
In the Republic, Book X, Plato discusses forms by using real things, such as a bed, for example, and calls each way a bed has been made a "bedness". He commences with the original form of a bed, one of a variety of ways a bed may have been constructed by a craftsman and compares that form with an ideal form of a bed, of a perfect archetype or image in the form of which beds ought to be made ...