More modern epic poems have been recorded in Spain and France, the Ottoman Empire, and as late as the 20th century in the Balkans. Even a millennium before Homer, bards were recording an already ancient oral tradition of epic poems in Sumer and Egypt (Preminger 544). Typical figures include demi-gods, kings, and military heroes. The stories were not memorized as is generally assumed but instead bards improvised oral chants, relying on heavy alliterative and assonantal techniques, which seemed to put both the bard and the audience into a trance (Preminger 542).Īn epic is a long non-stanzaic "poem on a great and serious subject, told in an elevated style, and centered on a heroic or quasi-divine figure on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe, a nation, or the human race" (Abrams 51). Narrative or story telling developed from ritualistic chanting of myths, and has traditionally been grouped into two poetic categories, epic and ballad. A narrative tells a story or a tale drama is presented on a stage, where actors embody characters lyric has been loosely defined as any short poem other than narrative and drama, where poets express their state of mind. Narrative, Lyric, and Drama are the three general literary forms into which writing, especially poetry, has traditionally been grouped. Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.
Lacoön: an essay on the limits of painting and poetry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. "Towards a Newer Laocoon." Clement Greenberg: The Collected essays and criticism. "Art and Objecthood." Artforum (Summer 1967): 12-23. "Literary Genres." Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language. New York: The Modern Library, 1947.ĭucrot, Owsald, and Tzvetan Todorov. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1988.Īristotle. I don't see why people have to say absolutely that there is no room in poetry for a particular kind of writing.Įspecially since there are more than enough people who think that poetry itself is worthless and that poems are for kids.Abrams, M. Obviously some people love descriptive poetry and some people think it is worthless or should at the least be mixed in with other forms of poetry.īut, why can't it just exist for the people who like it? Or for the people who can see what use it has? I mean, perhaps there is a particular emotion or experience that can only really be put forth in the form of a descriptive poem and any other form of poem would not be right for it. I always find it interesting how many people think in absolutes when it comes to poetry, or even art in general. So, people should be able to define poetry, although I agree that sometimes they become too narrow about it.
If you are going to use the art example, when Duchamp decided to call a toilet bowl art, he was making an important point about what art can be.īut an equally valid point is that if you allow everything to be art, art no longer exists. I mean there are descriptive poetry examples which seem no better than greeting card rhymes and most people wouldn't consider them to be poetry no matter how broad the definition. And if someone defines poetry as being the written form of an intense emotion, or some other similar definition, then descriptive poetry has no room in that definition. Perhaps it's too subtle for some.Īpril 27, - Well, you do need to be able to define what poetry is or it will lose all meaning. I think descriptive poetry is just another way of getting things across. If they don't, they will just see the nice description, if they do, they might see their own death in that blip. Humans are always going to look for deeper meaning.
LYRICAL POETRY EXAMPLES TV
A vivid description of a cartoon, which describes not only the obvious things but the not so obvious, like the funny postures, but also the pixels and the blip in the center of the screen when the TV goes off. I think people consider it to be dull because often it is undertaken as a dull exercise.īut if you were going to get students to do descriptive poetry for kids, you'd get them to describe things which are dear to them, or interesting to them.
Just because something is descriptive doesn't mean it can't also have a deeper meaning or be lovely for its own sake. April 27, - There are plenty of descriptive poems which are beautiful and as far from greeting card writing as can be.
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