A Glossary Of Poetic Words

I would like to re-submit this exhaustive list of terms associated with poetry and hope that members will make use of the list to understand different kinds of poetry in a better way. ABSTRACT -a word denoting qualities that do not exist except as attributes'- beauty, love, despair etc. ALLEGORY -a narrative in which the subject of a higher spiritual order is described in terms of that of a lower one. There are HISTORICAL and POLITICAL allegories and the allegory of IDEAS. ALLITERATION -the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence

Poetry, All About Poetry

Narrative poetry And the poet a narrator in verse, Lyrical poetry And the poet a singer of the heart, Metaphysical poetry And the poet as a metaphysician, Satiric poetry And the poet as a satirist, Romantic poetry And the poet as a romantic,

Poetry To Jayanta

Poetry to Jayanta Mahapatra Is imagery and imagism, Sticking to Oriya roots and nativity, A discussion of light and darkness, A visit to the temples and picnic spots, A description of human and rural poverty and hunger, Backwardness and underdevelopment, Human want and scarcity, The asthi-kalasha being immersed in, The pinda-dana being done on the sea beach

A Gallery Of Portraits In Poetry (Indian English Poets)

Indian English poetry There is nothing as Indian English poetry Though some have called it As is there anything Like British English, King’s or Queen’s Standard, Not even the local one And what it pains us is this It is nowhere spoken in India,

What Is Poetry, I Asked

What is poetry? , I asked a romantic, Said he, Poetry is romanticism, Coloured fancy and imagination, What is poetry? , I asked a realist, Said he, Poetry is realism, Realistic sketches, down to earth, What is poetry? , I asked, Said he,

The Philosopher

Philosopher, the world is yours, Thinking is yours And the mood too your own, Philosopher! The idea is yours, Delving too yours And the art of dwelling far And lapsing into.

What Is Poetry? Poetry Is Images

What is poetry? Poetry is images, Images drawn and sketched, Images seen, Poetry imagery and imagism.

Ph.D. On Jayanta Mahapatra, If You Want To Do Your Ph.D. On Jayanta Mahapatra

Ph.D. on Jayanta Mahapatra, How to choose the topics, How to do it? Jayanta Mahapatra: A Study In Imagery And Imagism, Poetry As Word-play: A Study In Jayanta Mahapatra, Poetry As Myth-making, Photography: A Study In Jayanta Mahapatra, Poetry as Physics, Physics As Poetry: A Study In Mahapatra's Poetry, Jayanta Mahapatra: A Study In Relationship With Orissa, Notes of Feminism, Realism, Existentialism, Nothingness In Jayanta Mahapatra,

What Is Poetry To Jayanta Mahapatra?

What is poetry for Jayanta? , If somebody asks him, What will it be the answer? Poetry is physics and vice versa, Poetry is women studies, rural studies, Poetry is feminism, realism, Poetry is post-modernism, post-colonialism, Poetry is imagery and imagism, Poetry is private reflections, Poetry a visit to Odisha.

Syavamvara And Other Poems By Jayanta Mahapatra

‘Svayamvara and other poems’ as a collection of poems Which appeared after Close the Sky, Ten by Ten From Writers Workshop, Calcutta In 1971 When Jayanta Mahapatra had been a teacher Of physics At Ravenshaw College, Cuttack. Though the book is no variation from his as usual style, But at that time,

Jayanta Mahapatra's Journey

Jayanta Mahapatra's journey From physics to poetry, From photography to word-play to imagery and imagism, Linguistic jargon of words, Meaninglessness to meaningfulness to bare realism, Poetry not poetry But the shades of light and darkness, A delving into the realms of nothingness, Existential search of meaning and values, How the composition with which earth is made of,

Ph.Ds.On Jayanta Mahapatra, How To Choose Topics?

Poetry As The Cartography and Topography of Odisha Poetry As Imagery and Imagism Poetry As Myth-making and Word-play Poetry As Rural Studies and Agrarian View-point Poetry As Physics Matter Poetry Nihilistic and Existential Poetry As Silhouettes, Shdowed Images and Reflections Poetry Feministic and Realistic Poetry as Penetration of Hunger, Underdevelopment and Moral Degradation Poetry of Serenade, Silence and Solitude

Sonnet: Modern Poetry

Is modern ultimate in any field? There’s no music or Rhyme in ‘Vers Libre’, What could poems without melody yield? It is a drab, uninteresting tray! How long could readers read on free verses? Invariably, it makes not much of sense; ’Tis like Mother Nature, treeless/ bird less! ’Tis like a gardenless house with a fence.

Upon The Death Of Autumn [ Art Of Imagism ] -

Shadows of autumn, they haunt me Life...sentenced to death by change Only needles of green, n' pine-cone Spare the forest-scape...of a barren black winter... Shadows stalk on th' whispery gales Novembers fickle breeze, doth snap Crisp images, ah, for th' poetic mind And, reclusive me as I quill by night

Upon Th' Changing Shadows Of Autumn (Imagism)

Shadows of autumn, they haunt me Life...sentenced to death by change Only needles of green, n' pine-cone Spares the forest-scape of a barren black winter... Shadows stalk on th' whispery gales Novembers fickle breeze, doth snap Crisp images, ah, for th' poetic mind And, reclusive me as I quill by night

Another Winter (Imagism)

Biting coldness grabs me with rain on this winter night - where I walk along the promenade and the wind is alive and grabs on to me and grabs me again like a impudent child and bleak-white a lightning bolt crashes down and I smell the explosion of that intimacy while the red face of the moon bursts out of the sea, disappears and are again present, like a swimming champion

Mister Ezra Pound I Read Your Words

Mister Ezra Pound I read your words The shearing machine of Imagism I I too saw that sea Entered the waters But stopped in the low water No further went Retreated from the line that I had drawn You shall see that too in my verse, Ezra.

T - P

When Imagism threatened perpetuation and was being shut down in favour of drugs, Imagists Against Drugs-Onset, IADs or IADOs, pushed 'Say No' and 'Just Don't', and their science-Joes came up with Tech-Perpet.

Grace To Women

Grace to women Grace to women To whom I owe They taught me But… Did I learn enough? Busy with Ezra Pound

Imagism: Nightmarish

At a salon of tall walls Exhibiting fine works of art Mysteriously an orange haired lady Began to appear. Modeling exquisite, fashionable, Victorian gowns In paintings Taking midday tea Attending balls at eventide.