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[1]: 213 Since the form of a poem is an important part of its meaning, that the process of paraphrasing it affects its meaning too much for the paraphrase to be an accurate summary of its meaning. The meaning of the poem is embodied in its sensual aspects of the arrangement, sound, and rhythm of the words, which are not translateable (an ...
The poem does not try to find the truth-value of a particular idea; it tries to juxtapose many, contradictory ideas together and reach a sort of resolution. The poet is trying to "unify experience" by making poetry not a statement about experience but an experience itself, with all the contradictory elements contained in one cultural expression ...
Jamie Parsley (born December 8, 1969) is an American poet and Episcopal priest. He is the author of fifteen books of poems and an associate poet laureate for the state of North Dakota. He is the author of fifteen books of poems and an associate poet laureate for the state of North Dakota.
A pregnant woman steals parsley from the garden of an ogress (orca) and agrees to give up her child when she is caught.The baby is born and named Petrosinella, after the southern Italian word for parsley (petrosino or petrusino; the modern standard Italian word is prezzemolo). [3]
History of poetry – the earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung, such as in the form of hymns (such as the work of Sumerian priestess Enheduanna), and employed as a way of remembering oral history, genealogy, and law. Many of the poems surviving from the ancient world are recorded prayers, or stories about religious subject ...
Understanding Poetry, according to an article at the Modern American Poetry Web site, "codified many of the so-called New Critical ideas into a coherent approach to literary study. Their book, and its companion volume, Understanding Fiction (1943), revolutionized the teaching of literature in the universities and spawned a host of imitators who ...
Poetry is "a skill or trained habit of using all the extra-logical elements of language—rhythm, vowel-music, onomatopoeia, associations, and what not—to convey the concrete reality of experience" (89). He defines a poem as "a composition which communicates more of the concrete and qualitative than our usual utterances do" (90).
The poem's references can be overly obscure because of the many specific Cambridgeshire locations (such as "Haslingfield and Coton") and English traditions to which the poem refers. Some, including George Orwell , have seen it as sentimentally nostalgic, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] while others have recognised its satiric and sometimes cruel humour.