Poetry and the power of words
Website design By BotEap.comLiterature is art. Poetry is the art of the word. There are many forms of art: verbal, sound, plastic, gestural, etc. Poetry and literary prose, like narrative, for example, are verbal arts.
Website design By BotEap.comThe varied styles and musical rhythms make up sound art. In turn, drawing, painting, photography, printing and sculpture are visual or plastic arts. The various types of dance are arts of signs. According to an old definition, the plastic arts are “silent poetry”. Indeed, the various forms of art give expression to human imagination and technical skill. It is important to note that art without poetry does not exist. Mário Quintana, a Brazilian poet, used to say, “all the arts are different manifestations of poetry.”
Website design By BotEap.comThus, poetry is a creative form of expression that can manifest itself in many ways, not only through verse. Poetry is one of the oldest literary expressions of humanity. In the ancient world, poetry was sung with instrumental accompaniment, on the flute or lyre. Hence the name “lyrical poetry”. The sounds of the words and the rhythm of the verses constitute the music of the poem. The poem has rhythms, cadences, and sounds that speak of our deepest emotions and feelings.
Website design By BotEap.comWhen we read a poem aloud, we can perceive its rhythm. Repetition is the basis of rhythm. Reading aloud is called interpretive reading. The poet has several resources available for the construction of rhythm: the length of the verses or poetic verses, the use of rhymes (identity of sounds at the end of words), stress (strong syllables X weak syllables), repetitions of vowel sounds. (assonances) or consonant groups (alliterations), the union of vowels, the strophic combination, etc.
Website design By BotEap.comThe verse is each verse of meaning that makes up the poem. There are authors who write poems with only one verse. For example, Jules Laforgue (1860-1887), when writing about the summer cicada, says: “L’insecticide net scratches dryness…” (in free translation: “The crisp insect scratches dryness…”). In a poem, the verses are grouped into stanzas or stanzas (this word comes from the Italian stanza and means ‘room’), in verses that follow the poetic rhythm. Thus, in poetry, words create verses, verses create stanzas, and stanzas create poems. In a story, sentences are organized into paragraphs, in straight lines. Words create sentences, sentences create paragraphs, and paragraphs create text.
Website design By BotEap.comThere are two main types of verse: traditional or orthodox verse, that is, rhymed and regular verse, which obeys fixed metrification rules (such as syllable count or stanza format), and modern or free verse. Actually, it is difficult to define free verse since it can be both uniform and free, that is, more “loose”. The obvious, but not essential, feature is that it dispenses with rhyme. Free verse seems more open to the anxieties and anxieties of modernity. However, in our modern poetry the rhyme has never been abandoned.