Class Notes

I just bought some kitty litter. The thing was so big, I had to put it in my trunk. When I got home, I opened my trunk, lugged out the kitty and litter and out tumbled an old spiral. A ha! It was a spiral i used for one of my poetry classes at Tech. I discovered some lost notes on poetry that are actually pretty good!
Here are some essentials.

*Poets make hints.
*Poems are based on experience in which meaning is discovered along the way - contextual meaning.
*Poets absorb and distill ideas that are current.
*When personification becomes the basic structure, you get allegory, usually. -(This was taken from a page of notes on "The White Man's Burden" by Kipling.)
*Metonymy = when a person, thing or action is replaced by one of its attributes or by something closely associated with it: "skirt" stands for "girl"
*Imagism = the image is crucial to the poem
*What is imagism? - 1. Direct treatment of the "thing" whether subjective or objective; 2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation; 3. as regarding rhythm; to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of the metronome; 4. focus on concrete images; go in fear of abstractions; describe to evoke; 5. dont use any extra words
* What's an image? "An image is an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time." - Pound
* An image = a concrete detail and a sensory detail
* In an image, you recreate psychological energy


Ok thats all the good stuff....hehe