Analysis Of The Poem Ekphrasis - 1293 Words

The term ekphrasis comes from the Greek words for description; ek, meaning out and phrasis, meaning to to tell, to speak and it generally refers to a piece of writing, be it a poem or work of prose, that takes its inspiration from a work of visual art, typically paintings or sculptures, but in some cases, as we ll see, it could involve manmade architecture or structure, household items, or images captured on film. In ekphrasis, it is the writer s intention to create an extension of the work of art in their own writing, in the case of this essay, I ll exam specifically the work of poets whose appreciation for the visual arts has largely influenced their written word and I ll discuss closely how overtime this need to extend†¦show more content†¦What does the painting do, if anything, better than the poem, asks Cheeke? (P)oems about paintings are always partly discovering what that is. (1) This is in a similar vein to what art critic, painter and poet John Berger, speaks of in his text Understanding a Photograph, when the first words that come to mind for a poet begin to unfold across the page. What is happening to the writer when they observe this work of art? What story is being told? What transformation happens on the page; as Berger puts it, When the words add up to sentences and the sentences fill whole pages and the pages tell a story, the displacement becomes a journey and the pages become a vehicle, a means of transport (Berger, Photograph, 117) How, we might ask, does the writer ever get to that point of inspiration in the first place? Gellings 3 The distinction might lie in the differentiation between what Cheeke refers to as the content-oriented approach to ekphrasis and the affect-oriented emphasis on the viewer. The approach of the frequent museum visitor, (or admirer of the arts) asks the question to themselves or those around them; What do you see in the work of art? or What does it mean? which differsShow MoreRelatedPeter Brueghe l s Fall Of Icarus1684 Words   |  7 Pagesintroduction to The Gazer’s Spirit defines ekphrastic poems as â€Å"those which involve descriptions or other sorts of visual representations of works of art† (Hollander, 4). James Heffernan in his essay â€Å"Ekphrasis and Representation,† which presents a more detailed study of the definition of ekphrasis, has a similar but more concise definition of ekphrasis as â€Å"the verbal representation of graphic representation† (Heffernan, 299). Heffernan goes on to say that ekphrasis â€Å"releases the narrative impulse that graphicRead MoreHow and to what purpose does Virgil use ekphrasis in the Aeneid3194 Words   |  13 Pagesï » ¿How and to what purpose does Virgil use ekphrasis in the Aeneid? Virgil’s use of ekphrasis in the Aeneid has attracted much attention by classical scholars; as such the coverage on this topic is extensive. This essay therefore does not aim to purport all of Virgil’s techniques and aims in regard to describing art in the Aeneid – a subject on which entire books have been written – rather the brevity of this essay necessitates an overview of the predominant theories, whilst attempting to shed lightRead MoreSyntax and Morphological Analysis of the Poem1519 Words   |  7 PagesSyntax and Morphological Analysis of the Poem â€Å"The Red Wheelbarrow† by William Carlos Williams Accordingly, the rhetoric idea learnt in writing poetry is found in the work of Williams. Analysts found that the author believes that localism aline may lead to culture. Ideally, the factor of imagism is well designed in The Red Wheelbarrow, giving credit to the poem under discussion. In this paper, the author will analyze various features of this poem, giving phonological, lexical, syntactic, and sematic