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Concrete poetry relates more to the visual than to the verbal arts although there is a considerable overlap in the kind of product to which it refers. Historically, however, concrete poetry has developed from a long tradition of shaped or patterned poems in which the words are arranged in such a way as to depict their subject.
The Mouse's Tale" is a shaped poem by Lewis Carroll which appears in his 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Though no formal title for the poem is given in the text, the chapter title refers to "A Long Tale" and the Mouse introduces it by saying, "Mine is a long and sad tale!" As well as the contribution of typography to illustrate ...
Sappho 31 is a lyric poem by the Archaic Greek poet Sappho of the island of Lesbos. [a] The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι lit. ' It seems to me ') after the opening words of its first line.
The turn in poetry has gone by many names. In "The Poem in Countermotion", the final chapter of How Does a Poem Mean?, John Ciardi speaks thus of the "fulcrum" in relation to the non-sonnet poem "O western wind" (O Western Wind/when wilt thou blow/The small rain down can rain//Christ! my love were in my arms/and I in my bed again): 'The first two lines are a cry of anguish to the western wind ...
The Convergence of the Twain (Lines on the loss of the Titanic)" is a poem by Thomas Hardy, published in 1912. The poem describes the sinking and wreckage of the ocean liner RMS Titanic. "Convergence" is written in tercets and consists of eleven stanzas (I to XI), following the AAA rhyme pattern. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Le Parti pris des choses is a collection of 32 short to medium-length prose poems by the French poet and essayist Francis Ponge.It was first published in 1942.The title has been translated into English as Taking the Side of Things and as The Nature of Things.
Poems of the Imagination (1815–45); Miscellaneous Poems (1845–) 1807 A Complaint 1806 "There is a change--and I am poor;" Poems founded on the Affection 1807 Stray Pleasures 1806 Former title: Bore the lack of a title in the 1807 and 1815 editions. From 1820 onward, the poem bore the current title. Manuscript title: "Dancers."
Li Bai (Chinese: 李白; pinyin: Lǐ Bái, 701–762), formerly pronounced Li Bo, courtesy name Taibai (太白), was a Chinese poet acclaimed as one of the greatest and most important poets of the Tang dynasty and in Chinese history as a whole.