Durham, United Kingdom

Studies in Poetry

Master's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Qualification: MA
Kind of studies: part-time studies
Master of Arts (MA)
University website: www.dur.ac.uk
Poetry
Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.
Poetry
As part of the spring ritual of National Poetry Month, poets are symbolically dragged into the public square in order to be humiliated with the claim that their product has not achieved sufficient market penetration and must be revived by the Artificial Resuscitation Foundation (ARF) lest the art form collapse from its own incompetence, irrelevance, and as a result of the general disinterest among the broad masses of the American People. The motto of ARF's National Poetry Month is: "Poetry's not so bad, really."
Charles Bernstein, "Against National Poetry Month As Such", from My Way: Speeches and Poems, 1999, University Of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226044092.
Poetry
Prose—words in their best order;—poetry—the best words in their best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk (12 July 1827).
Poetry
A poem should not mean
But be.
Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica (1926).
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