By John Ashbrey
Introduction:
The painter, by Ashbery sheds light on art in general and imitative art in particular, and touched some modern movements such as imagism, which depended on concrete images instead of poetic diction, so many critical views have been presented to interpret this piece of art. Ashbery endeavors to depict the beautiful vision of artist’s mind by focusing on the proclamation “as is painting, so is verse". Through verse he commends and praises the painter's conflict to locate his actual imaginative structure and slant towards a particular method for being creative in the poem "The Painter". The poet hoped to find independence and creativity in the sea but he still unable to draw a portrait on his canvas. …show more content…
Ashbery is famous for his surrealist verse and in "The Painter” he utilizes his talent wonderfully to make associations between fluctuated images. He uses the adjusted type of sestina (last expressions of the verses are generally transformed) he can make these pictures appears in a creative mixture. In any case, the irony here in the poem is that the artist represented through the poem appears to experience a tough situation in his life but the innovativeness by which the artist himself composes, talks volume of about the masterpiece he delivers. The artist can make with the painter in the poem a smooth symbolism and an illustrative image of the artist’s battle towards his imaginative freedom - a simple human's push to battle for what he regards