Verbless poetry
Verbless poetry is a field of language arts which deals with creating poems without verbs.[1]
Attributes
The verbless poem creates a sense of arrested moment [2] and is therefore especially appropriate to Haiku and Imagism poetic forms.
The very essence of Verbless poetry has been described as ' poetry without any dress, without ornament '.[3]
Ezra Pound's 'In a Station of the Metro', a fourteen word poem , is an example thereof.Other examples are the impressionistic word pictures 'Storm in the evening sky' (1842) and ' Whisper , timid breathing' (1850) lyrical verbless poems of Afanasy Fet.[4]
Otto Jespersen in his writings on the topic considered the lack of verbs gave 'a very definite impression of movement'.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ "From A Poet's Glossary: Verbless Poetry | Academy of American Poets". www.poets.org. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
- ↑ Hirsch Edward 'A Poet's Glossary' Houghton Mifflin ,London 2014 ISBN 9780151011957
- ↑ Hearn, Lafcadio 'Lecture ' Imperial University , Tokyo, Japan
- ↑ Hirsch, Edward 'A Poet's Glossary', Houghton Mifflin London 2012 ISBN 9780151011957
- ↑ Jespersen, Otto, 'Role of the Verb, Selected Writings '1912 ISBN 9780203857199
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