Poetics

make a great drama. The Guardian is a movie about a young man who joins the Coast Guard and becomes a rescue swimmer. He has to overcome the loss of his closest friends that died in a car crash and be strong enough to save the lives of others who are lost at sea. Aristotle’s principles to poetics are applied to the film The Guardian through identifying with the protagonist, catharsis, and simply music. First of all, identifying with the protagonist is one application of Aristotle’s poetics that’s…

The poetic diction used in your poem appears to be well thought out. However, the phrasing of the lines are awkward. Thus giving the poem a staccato rhythm. I understand some of the phrasing is due to the limitations of the assignment, however, you should consider rephrasing certain lines or changing the rhyme scheme. For example lines three and four “I was perhaps misinformed that day, neglecting even the lizards…” The phrasing of the line seems off. Further on in the poem there is a line that…

In Sonnet 29, the narrator examines his life that he has been dealt. Shakespeare uses poetic devices to describe the speaker’s emotional progression from a depressed soul to a happy lover. In Quatrain 1, Shakespeare introduces the life topic of depression; as the narrator battles this within himself, a conflict is presented to the audience. The narrator “beweep[s] [his] outcast state,” which translates the narrator’s discontentment with his life. An outcast is a person who has been rejected by a…

Hegel begins by describing poetry as a form that manifests ideas into concrete actuality, rather than abstract feeling (p. 960). From the inner imagination comes the formation of material in poetry–but this material is not made poetic by being harboured in ideas, but that it is being harboured in an artistic imagination. Here, Hegel defines the artistic imagination as to keep the abstract universality of thought separate from the sensuously concrete objects. Poetry employs language as an…

Poetic Merit In this day and age, poetry is often shown through music. Whether it’s with the theme of the lyrics or the figurative language involved, music can clearly show poetic elements. One song I chose to display this poetic merit was “The Sound of Silence” by Simon and Garfunkle. This song is filled with imagery, a deep and thoughtful meaning, and religious, yet ironic ties into this century. “The Sound of Silence” contains religious context. It relates chapels and tenement halls to…

Teaching Students to Compose Informational Poetic Riddles to Further Scientific Understanding The authors, Elizabeth M. Frye, Leslie Bradbury, and Lisa A. Gross, wrote about integrating informational writing and science content into poetic riddle composition. Reading and writing narrative texts is more predominate in an elementary curriculum that informational texts. Despite the Common Core State Standards advisement that informational texts encompass almost half of K-8 students' entire…

Have you ever realized how much poetic devices have changed the way a poem is written? Well, many poems contain this. Once you have read a poem, you would usually go back and look through it right? Well, once you have done that a few times, you will begin to notice poetic devices such as, metaphors, similes, alliteration, repetition, imagery, and more. As you read a poem, you find all these things to make the poem better. For example, in the story The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes, the poetic…

Gaston Bachelard, in his influential book, The Poetics of Space discusses the idea that a person’s house is their ‘first universe’ and that the various dwellings we inhabit over the course of our lives have a lasting impact on our memories and spatial perception. He writes of the differing tonality in memories we have of home and those of the outside world – the result of a home’s main purpose, to shelter daydreaming. The emotions that Bachelard writes about, however, tend to be overwhelmingly…

Who has not heard the song “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”? The song “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” is a popular and joyful song wrote in 1963, this song represents Christmas, “The most wonderful time of the year”. Now day this song is a traditional song, heard in Christmas. The use of poetic device impacts the song makes you imagine every word Andy Williams it’s singing. Onomatopoeia, imagery, and repetition are some of the poetic devices that are used on this…

Aristotle was a famous disciple of Plato who first defines fine arts and he differs with his teacher Plato in his book of Poetic. His Poetic deals with the principles of Poetic art in general and tragedy. He defines Tragedy as “an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude” (Aristotle, 2017). He also constituent parts of tragedy and they are plot, characters, thought, diction, song and spectacle. The first three plot, characters and thought are the object of…