To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways-guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry's stance toward language creates a particular intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed articulation that expands inner experience, imagining with words what cannot always be imagined without them. Through translation, poetry has diversified poetic traditions, and some of poetry's ways of thinking begin in the ancient world and remain potent even now.
In How Poems Think, Reginald Gibbons presents a rich gallery of poetic inventiveness and continuity drawn from a wide range of poets-Sappho, Pindar, Shakespeare, Keats, William Carlos Williams, Marina Tsvetaeva, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many others. Gibbons explores poetic temperament, rhyme, metonymy, etymology, and other elements of poetry as modes of thinking and feeling. In celebration and homage, Gibbons attunes us to the possibilities of poetic thinking.
| ISBN: | 9780226278001 |
| Publication date: | 9th October 2015 |
| Author: | Reginald Gibbons |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets |
To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways-guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry's stance toward language creates a particular intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed articulation that expands inner experience, imagining with words what cannot always be imagined without them.
How Poems Think features in the following genres: Literary studies: poetry and poets
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How Poems Think was written by Reginald Gibbons and published by The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press
How Poems Think has 208 pages