Week 12 - Concrete Poem
Week 6 - Imagist Poetry
1.) "The image is the poet's pigment. The image is not an idea, it is a radiant node or cluster. A vortex through which and from which and into which ideas are constantly rushing. It is as true for painting and sculpture as it is for poetry." 2.) When writing poetry, I often opt to break the lines the way they make the most sense. That being said, I usually resign to making each line a complete sentence, and rarely ever venturing into the territory of cutting off a line at a point where it is grammatically incorrect. It has been rather difficult for me to through caution to the wind structurally in my poetry, primarily because I've been taught that breaking the grammatical structure in anything is about the worst offense any writer could do. Upon reading Hirsh's response to how to create the lines in poems, I found that my method of organizing the structure of my poem is a very normal and natural response to poetry. However, I've also learned that there ...
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