"I want to write a poem."
"That would be a great idea for a poem! . . . If only I could write a poem."
"Ah, I knew I could write poetry! It's easy! Just a rhyme every other line! Yes?"
"Anybody can write poetry--after all, it's in the mind of the poet whether it's a real poem or not."
"Me write poetry? No way! I...I don't have the words or know where the words go."
"Write a poem? Well, how do I begin?"
For most people and many writers for that matter to write poetry may or may not seem a simple, easy feat to achieve. Most poets, those famous as well as neo-poets, have developed their own style of expressing feelings and thoughts to readers in a poem after becoming inspired by some object, incident or person. Usually, the poet utilizes an image or various images to lure and capture readers. In good poetry, these images ultimately evolve as the poem.
The group of poets, known as the Imagists, focus on the idea that the image is the poem. Although each poet's interaction and perception of the world around them offers readers a myriad of poetry to peruse, at the core of each poem gyrates an image upon which readers can identify with.
The founder of the Imagists is Ezra Pound. He culminates the elements of various arts and implements them within his poetry. He grasps an emotion, then wrestles with color, texture, beat, and tone until his poem evolves. For instance, his writing of the poem "in a station at the metro" is based on the high emotion feels as he sees beautiful faces at a station.
Ezra writes: "Three years ago in Paris I got out of a "metro" train at La Concorde, and saw suddenly a beautiful face, and then another and another, and then a beautiful child's face, and then another beautiful woman, and I tried all that day to find words for what this had meant to me, and I could not find any words that seemed to me worthy, or as lovely as that sudden emotion." (http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m... )
I suspect that many poets have struggled to express their ideas or emotions to the art of poetry. Pound is not the first and last to grapple with words as a painter swishes and blotches colors until the right tinge of color appears on the canvas or as a musician squeaking and bellowing notes until the perfect pitch and harmony fills the air. What Pound did, however, was swirl the brush and twang the notes just slightly more: imagery is poetry.
"That would be a great idea for a poem! . . . If only I could write a poem."
"Ah, I knew I could write poetry! It's easy! Just a rhyme every other line! Yes?"
"Anybody can write poetry--after all, it's in the mind of the poet whether it's a real poem or not."
"Me write poetry? No way! I...I don't have the words or know where the words go."
"Write a poem? Well, how do I begin?"
For most people and many writers for that matter to write poetry may or may not seem a simple, easy feat to achieve. Most poets, those famous as well as neo-poets, have developed their own style of expressing feelings and thoughts to readers in a poem after becoming inspired by some object, incident or person. Usually, the poet utilizes an image or various images to lure and capture readers. In good poetry, these images ultimately evolve as the poem.
The group of poets, known as the Imagists, focus on the idea that the image is the poem. Although each poet's interaction and perception of the world around them offers readers a myriad of poetry to peruse, at the core of each poem gyrates an image upon which readers can identify with.
The founder of the Imagists is Ezra Pound. He culminates the elements of various arts and implements them within his poetry. He grasps an emotion, then wrestles with color, texture, beat, and tone until his poem evolves. For instance, his writing of the poem "in a station at the metro" is based on the high emotion feels as he sees beautiful faces at a station.
Ezra writes: "Three years ago in Paris I got out of a "metro" train at La Concorde, and saw suddenly a beautiful face, and then another and another, and then a beautiful child's face, and then another beautiful woman, and I tried all that day to find words for what this had meant to me, and I could not find any words that seemed to me worthy, or as lovely as that sudden emotion." (http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m... )
I suspect that many poets have struggled to express their ideas or emotions to the art of poetry. Pound is not the first and last to grapple with words as a painter swishes and blotches colors until the right tinge of color appears on the canvas or as a musician squeaking and bellowing notes until the perfect pitch and harmony fills the air. What Pound did, however, was swirl the brush and twang the notes just slightly more: imagery is poetry.
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