Metatheatre In William Eggintel's Mettheatre

Poetry in some way, shape or form, gives realistic ideas to even objects that reflect upon a part of life by using symbolism and personification.

11. A poet can work its magic on the reader by “choice of images, music of the language, idea content, and cleverness of wordplay” (Foster 17).

George Szirtes article “Formal Wear: Notes on Rhyme, Meter, Stanza, and Pattern” from the Poetry Foundation opens with opinions which focus on limitations of poetic form. As a counter to these common arguments, Szirtes claims, “Verse is not decoration: it is structural. It is a forming principle and words at depth” ("Formal Wear: Notes” 2). He then develops an argument explaining, “the constraints of form are spurs of the imagination: that they are in fact the chief producers of imagination” ("Formal Wear: Notes” 2). Taking these ideas into consideration Szirtes incorporates the idea of language explaining how language connects to memory and imagination which come together to form poetic images. Additionally, when poets use form it develops

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” William Shakespeare may have written these words in As You Like It in 1600, but Erving Goffman truly defined the phrase with his dramaturgical theory. Dramaturgical analysis is the study of social interaction in terms of theatrical performance. Unlike actors though, who use a script telling them how to behave in every scene, real life human interactions change depending upon the social situation they are in. We may have an idea of how we want to be perceived, and may have the foundation to make that happen. But we cannot be sure of every interaction we will have throughout the day, having to ebb and flow with the conversations and situations as they happen.

The literary device of Anthropomorphism, helps to describe the different images described in Act 2 of the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Currently, Lennox is describing the current storm raging outside. Shakespeare uses Anthropomorphism to give more of a first hand description of the storm Lennox is describing. Because the storm parallels the events occurring in Macbeth’s residence, it creates a dramatic effect upon the play. The author gives different objects and happenings, a personality of their own, in order to add depth to that particular event.

Poetry is a very misunderstood form of writing, however one of the purest and beautiful forms of writing. It is a sense of the beautiful; portrayed by a love of beauty and expressing thus through words. It is an art, but like art it is very hard to define because it is an expression of the authors thoughts and feelings and may take any form the author wishes.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: there can be many different perspectives seen in a poem. One individual could read a poem as depressing and another can perceive it as a new beginning. One’s views rests on individual perspectives. For example, Edgar Allen Poe’s writing is dark and controversial. In my essay I will argue that Poe was not in his right mind and he was driven mad with evidence throughout his short story “The Tell-Tale Heart”.

The criterion used to determine whether or not artistic works can be considered poetry or not are, at best, esoteric. As poetry has evolved from rigidly-structured sonnets of the Renaissance to the plethora of imaginative, free verse pieces being produced today, the scope of what the artistic public defines as “poetry” has been stretched to encompass a great many things. This new freedom of form does have its limits, however. Take, for example, Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric and Kenneth Goldsmith’s Seven American Deaths and Disasters. Rankine incorporates a number of images and collages into Citizen to help augment the messages being put forward by her writing, while Goldsmith’s work is composed entirely of transcriptions of

Poetry has a role in society, not only to serve as part of the aesthetics or of the arts. It also gives us a view of what the society is in the context of when it was written and what the author is trying to express through words. The words as a tool in poetry may seem ordinary when used in ordinary circumstance. Yet, these words can hold more emotion and thought, however brief it was presented.

Another one of the most important aspects of a great poem, is it’s form. The author’s

A well-written poem would help one to engage into the work with their senses. One should be able to ask themselves what the poem caused them to think, hear, see, feel, taste, and to determine what he or she learned from the poet’s words. Many people believe that because poetry is an enigmatic art, and that there is no way for sure to know the

poem is not merely a static, decorative creation, but that it is an act of communication between the poet and

In literature, authors use different stylistic elements to establish their viewpoints on a variety of topics without directly stating it. Or, they can state it and give descriptive details about their viewpoint. Lord Byron does this in his poem “She Walks In Beauty”. Through the uses of details, diction, and language, Byron is able to create a passionate tone throughout the poem when describing the beauty of the woman.

The goal of this paper is to present a thorough description of the aspects that are pertinent to the dramaturgical flow by trying to rationalize

Specialists in descriptive grammar (linguists) examine the principles and patterns that underlie the use of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. In contrast, prescriptive