Self Portraits: Ekphrasis Poetry

The poem talks about a woman who is lost in love, She expresses the feeling and emotion of true love.

It is easy to speculate the different meanings of the artwork by the position of the body and the mirrors. For example, a woman looking straight out to the viewer with the mirror turned away could symbolize the woman has something to hide. The woman’s back turned towards the viewer with the mirrors reflection straight on could symbolize vanity. Or in the case of Triptych of Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation the woman and mirror could both be visible to the viewer to show she is openly vain. And as stated previously a woman’s back reflected in the mirror could show impurity. Mirrors in art tend to be extraordinary, and it is not fanciful to believe that the development of the glass mirror is based on civilization although it can also be altered by the whole perception of human beings. The glass mirrors have affected the transformation referred as the Renaissance

The reflection of each poet's childhood is displayed within these lines helping to build a tone for the memories of each narrator.

symbolic richness, but at the same time the poem supplies the reader with a wide

In today’s modern view, poetry has become more than just paragraphs that rhyme at the end of each sentence. If the reader has an open mind and the ability to read in between the lines, they discover more than they have bargained for. Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse, while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains, all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written, the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand, poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous writer by

In the poems ‘How to Eat a Poem’ by Eve Merriam and ‘Introduction to Poetry’ by Billy Collins, important ideas are presented about how poetry should be experienced and enjoyed. The poets used the techniques extended metaphor, repetition, metaphors and personification to show me how these ideas is important.

In this essay I will look at the two poems, explore what the poems are

John Ashbery uses his poem, “And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name," (Ashbery, 1) to discuss the colorful elements that could possibly go into what he’s termed a “poem-painting” (Ut Pictura Poesis, 11). The ingredients comprise of blossoms, the names of boys we used to know and their toys, and of course, a sprinkle of a few very profound thoughts. Ashbery uses language to paint his perspective on something like a spoken canvas with the use of structure, irrational language, stream of consciousness, literary devices, and connotation. This poem contests its readers to cast out any presumptions about the inflexible and technical framework of poetry and brings its readers peaks of clarity through ambiguity.

Kevin Kovacs ENGL 102-007 Professor Estes January 12, 2016 Ars Poetica “Ars Poetica”, by Archibald MacLeish is a free-verse poem about essentially “the art of poetry”. This poem goes on to describe the qualities a poem should stand by to be recognized as a work of art. Everyone has his or her own opinion on what a poem should be. How it looks, how it sounds, what you are supposed to feel when you read it. Some analyze every aspect of a poem, others, just read the words presented to them.

Rennie McQuilkin presents meaning in his poems through his precise word choice and use of figurative language which blends in with carefully chosen ideas and memories. With art being his main focus, McQuilkin splits up his work into two parts; a narrative beginning and a more symbolic end in both “The Collecting” and in “Birth of a Poet.”

In addition, Girl before a mirror by Picasso, shows a girl standing in front of the mirror. As we can see the girl possesses two sides of the face where one of them looks colorful and the other one seems not much color; this can be perceived as how the colorful side of her face means all the happiness in her life because of colors represents the makeup and how young and beautiful she looks where on the other side of her face lacks some color meaning that she depicts her sad and depressive side, where she feels unhappy and the colors make her look older. Also, we can see in the picture that the mirror reflects a different image of the girl; her body seems disturbed and shows darker shades of the colors giving the appearance of how the girl sees

Both poems contain declarations of love and both attempt to persuade in a personal way. Also both Poems offer gifts or nice promises to they’re women if they are to cooperate.

However, in this essay, I understand poetic tradition precisely as the ability of the poet of being aware of his/her predecessors in order to create a poetics that takes into account existing tradition, but imprints its own voice throughout time and fix it in the memory of poetry.

The term 'ekphrasis ' comes from the Greek words for description; ek, meaning 'out ' and phrasis, meaning to 'to tell, to speak ' and it generally refers to a piece of writing, be it a poem or work of prose, that takes its inspiration from a work of visual art, typically paintings or sculptures, but in some cases, as we 'll see, it could involve manmade architecture or structure, household items, or images captured on film. In ekphrasis, it is the writer 's intention to create an extension of the work of art in their own writing, in the case of this essay, I 'll exam specifically the work of poets whose appreciation for the visual arts has largely influenced their written word and I 'll discuss closely how overtime this need to extend

Auden is a poet from the XXth century. As such, he has suffered the wars that have stricken the period. The ekphrasis, which is a literary description of a work of art, is used by Auden in his poems “The Shield of Achilles” and “Musée des Beaux Arts”. As part of his great concerns were the political and psychological conflicts that existed then. In the aforementioned poems, Auden uses the ekphrasis to denounce people’s indifference to human misery.