Interest In Poetry Research Articles

Case For Chapbooks

Collecting contemporary poetry is often a low priority for libraries, but interest in poetry is rising, and many library patrons have the potential to become poetry readers. Building a collection of poetry chapbooks can maximize the impact of a renewed poetry collecting effort because the poetry chapbook is an accessible, high-interest, and often low-cost form that captures the cutting edge of the poetic field. I introduce the poetry chapbook and its creative and social functions and describe various avenues for building a chapbook collection, including acquisition strategies, examples of digital initiatives such as participatory chapbook repository projects, and notes on promoting engagement. The community-building potential and links to higher-level goals such as diverse collecting, local interest, and cultural preservation allow chapbook collections to add unique value to a variety of public, academic, special, and school library contexts.

THE ANALYSIS OF THE MIRROR PRAYER POEM IN HÜSEYIN AKKAYA'S BOOK POEMS PASSING THROUGH THE MIRROR

Hüseyin Akkaya, born in Sivas in 1955, worked as a professor at Cumhuriyet University since 2004 and retired. In addition to being an academic, his interest in poetry has never ended due to his childhood curiosity. After his first poem, Beli Gül, he wrote his poems with the theme of "mirror". “When I started writing poems centered on the mirror nine years ago, I did not expect that there would be so many of them."I think my poem, "Living in Mirrors", which I first wrote in 2012, must have been born from a fertile source because it paved the way for other mirror poems." He describes his arrival in this way. "Mirror", which has an important place as a symbol in poetry, has been used by many poets from divan literature to the present day. The "Mirror" symbol has appeared in poems both in mystical and human terms. Akkaya, on the other hand, wrote his poem called "Mirror Prayer" as a Sufi style in his book where he compiled his poems on the symbol of "mirror". Roman Ingarden and Nicolai Hartmann are two important names in the ontological analysis method, which is one of the poetry analysis methods. Ingarden stands out in dividing assets into layers, and Hartmann stands out in dividing these layers into real and irreal asset areas. Under the guidance of this information, İsmail Tunalı examined the layers of existence in his book titled Art Ontology. The poem "Mirror Prayer" mentioned in this study was analyzed ontologically according to the layers of existence in İsmail Tunalı's book titled Art Ontology.

Dramatic Poetry as Rhetorical Form: The Case of Sarah Piatt’s “Mock Diamonds”

The programmatic study of narrative and poetry has stalled without engaging many approaches to narrative inquiry and without comprehending the sui generis achievements of poetical representation. This essay attempts to rejuvenate narratological and specifically rhetorical interest in poetry by carefully examining the dramatic poem—where poetic form intersects with several of narrative theory’s abiding enthusiasms: character, voice, perspective, performance. Marrying theoretical speculation to both practical criticism and literary history, the argument extrapolates from Sarah Piatt’s “Mock Diamonds” a twofold rhetoric of the dramatic-poetic mode. It posits first that, often through segmentation and related phenomena, dramatic poems formally enact a competition between individual communicants and the discursive contexts that threaten to supplant their perspectival authority. Second, it maintains that dramatic poems coordinate a dialogic interplay between (1) character speech, whose semantic content manifests the character-speaker’s intentions, and (2) versification, whose formal qualities signify outside the represented scene. The recitative performance conventionally mandated by poetry integrates these two communicative channels such that they mean the embodied expression they specify together. That culminative detail underscores the essay’s broadest implication: namely, that poetry’s emphases on readerly enactment and sonic, somatic, and typographic patterning generate rhetorical effects not readily available in other representational discourses. Dramatic poetry, as epitomized by “Mock Diamonds,” demonstrates the power of poetic form to renovate, and hence to augment, prevailing theories of even the most familiar narrative constituents.

This issue is dedicated to Luigi Balsamo

Luigi Balsamo was a librarian, a bibliographical superintendent, an AIB member, a professor of Bibliography, the editor of "La Bibliofilia", and an important international personality, especially in the Anglo-Saxon and Iberian area, author of numerous writings on public libraries and the history of books, including 'La bibliografia. Storia di una tradizione' (translated both in English and in Spanish). Less well known is his interest in poetry, which he cultivated from his youth. The liryc 'Autumn' is part of an unpublished collection, entirely private and hitherto jealously guarded within the family circle.

Making Connections in Challenging Times-The Transformative Potential of Poetry for Critical Global Education

The transformative role of global education (GE) has come to the fore in recent years in the face of increasingly complex and challenging global development realities. At the heart of this is a call for learning which enables people to make connections beyond simplifications but which address divisions and inequalities. Despite the rhetoric, GE is not always as critical or transformative as it aspires to be. Here, I focus on how poetry can support educators to make connections with complexity, diversity and alternatives that, I argue, are needed to address contemporary global challenges. Inspired, in part, by the proliferation of interest in poetry since the COVID-19 pandemic, I draw on research conducted with global education facilitators in Ireland in 2016. Through the discussion of a few examples, I invite educators to reflect on how they might engage with poetry to enhance the transformative potential of GE in their own contexts.

All Things Modernism: An Interview with Jane Goldman

Dr Jane Goldman is Reader in English Literature (Avant-garde Poetics and Creative Writing) at University of Glasgow. She has research interests in Poetry and Poetics, Creative Writing, Ekphrasis, Modernism and Avant-Garde, Queer Theory, Virginia Woolf Studies and Canine Aesthetics and Animality Studies. She is a poet whose poems have appeared in several magazines and has published most recently Sekxphrastiks (Dostoyevsky, 2021). She is also a General Editor of the Cambridge University Press Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf.

THE PROBLEMS OF THE POETIC IMAGE OF ABU TAMMAM

Critics and scholars differed in Abi Tammam’s poetry in the past and the present between supporters and opponents, as his poetry represents a critical material that was and is still the subject of criticism and controversy to this day. As we look at his poetic image by considering it the ideal artistic means for conveying the poet’s experience, and embodying the content of that experience; because of its ability to interrogate the reader, and make him meditate about it in order to interpret and understand it. In this research, we shed the light on the problems of the poetic image of a poet who was deeply in love with the types of the art of figures of speech, and he was extravagant in employing the embellishments in his poetry, not shying from the exaggeration of odd words taken out from their familiar linguistic meaning to figurative, which made his poetry the focus of the attention of critics and researchers. The research presents several features found in Abu Tammam’s poetry that dressed his poetic images with mystery and strangeness, including the immersion in metaphors, and exaggeration in embellishment arts such as alliteration and analogy and others, in addition to the use of strange words, as well as exaggeration in description (accompanied by poetic evidences indication those characteristics), which led to the departure of his poetry from the ordinary, so there are many possibilities inherent in its connotations to address the mind before the conscience. The research also stops at the poet’s life and upbringing, and the impact of that on refining his talent and the brilliance of his poetics, as the poet’s upbringing in an era that witnessed a great cultural renaissance that included various aspects of life, in addition to what distinguished his person of a brilliant mentality and a broad culture that derive from his interest in poetry and his passion for itm to be shown in the poetic output he left behind, which made his poetic images a subject in the old and contemporary critical study. Key words: The Administrative Decision, Images of Deviation.

The Listener’s Gallery

The Listener's Gallery Gregory Berg Click for larger view View full resolution Gregory Berg ________ Bold Beauty: Songs by Juliana Hall. Molly Fillmore, soprano; Elvia Puccinelli, piano. (Blue Griffin Recordings BGR 559; 61:00) Letters from Edna: "To Mr. Ficke and Mr. Bynner," "To Arthur Davison Ficke—1913," "To Anne Gardner Lynch," "To Harriet Monroe," "To Norma Millay," "To Arthur Davison Ficke—1943," "To Arthur Davison Ficke—1930," "To Mother." Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush: "To Eudocia C. Flynt," "To T.W. Higginson," "To Emily Fowler (Ford)," "To Samuel Bowles the Younger," "To Eugenia Hall," "To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson) I," "To Susan Gilbert (Dickinson) II." Theme in Yellow: "Song," "Ripe Corn," "November," "Theme in Yellow," "Splinter," "Haze Gold." Cameos: "Sarah Albritton," "Kay WalkingStick," "Nellie Mae Rowe," "Alice Dalton Brown," "Agnes Pelton," "Corita Kent." There is more than one pathway to greatness. It is sometimes achieved through unstinting focus on a specific goal from the moment one begins harboring professional or vocational aspirations of any kind. But greatness can also be achieved once someone has relinquished one goal in favor of another. That change in course can be disconcerting, to say the least, but any success that follows is exceptionally sweet. Juliana Hall has scored incredible success in the realm of art song, despite being something of a late bloomer as a composer. The daughter of a gifted pianist, Hall devoted many years to piano study and achieved a high degree of excellence. It was only while pursuing a graduate degree in piano at Yale School of Music that she found herself drawn toward and directed into composition. She had dabbled in composition from time to time, as so many gifted musicians do, and had always had interest in poetry and theater, but this was the point in her life when composition became the primary focus of her considerable talents and energy. As if to confirm the wisdom of her bold choice, Hall earned a master's degree in composition and within months was hard at work on her first commission—a song cycle for soprano Dawn Upshaw. From that auspicious start, Hall has gone on to craft highly regarded works for some of the world's most esteemed singers, including Stephanie Blythe, Anthony Dean Griffey, and Brian Asawa. She remains one of the world's most prolific and lauded art song composers, with her creative energies burning as brightly as ever. The release Bold Beauty is a marvelous collection that combines three early song sets (from 1989, 1990, and 1993) with a more recent one composed in 2018. Every measure of music recorded here is a clear demonstration of Hall's exceptional abilities for taking almost any kind of text and giving it new life through music. Two of these four song collections are actually settings of letters rather than poems, but Hall does not seem the least troubled by the challenge of setting nonpoetic texts to music. On the contrary, she seems to relish the challenge, because it seems to draw especially vivid music from her pen. Of course, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Emily Dickinson are not exactly typical letter writers, and one can certainly sense their poetic voice lurking just beneath the surface. Letters from Edna consists of songs that are every bit as colorful and vivid as the poet herself. There is an almost jaunty joy in these letters, no matter what the circumstances under which they were written; one can sense Millay's intense love of language in the way she puts words together. There is a very different mood at play in Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush, which are settings of letters by the fascinating and enigmatic Emily Dickinson. Although there are certainly dashes of humor and irreverence, there is also more an atmosphere of mystery overhanging these songs. Hall turns to more conventional texts for her beautifully crafted Theme in Yellow, which draws upon poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Carl Sandburg, among others. She tells us in the liner notes that, earlier in her career, her typical practice was to choose a theme for a given song cycle or set and then search for poems that would align...

Making Connections in Challenging Times - The Transformative Potential of Poetry for Critical Global Education

The transformative role of global education (GE) has come to the fore in recent years in the face of increasingly complex and challenging global development realities. At the heart of this is a call for learning which enables people to make connections beyond simplifications but which address divisions and inequalities. Despite the rhetoric, GE is not always as critical or transformative as it aspires to be. Here, I focus on how poetry can support educators to make connections with complexity, diversity and alternatives that, I argue, are needed to address contemporary global challenges. Inspired, in part, by the proliferation of interest in poetry since the COVID-19 pandemic, I draw on research conducted with global education facilitators in Ireland in 2016. Through the discussion of a few examples, I invite educators to reflect on how they might engage with poetry to enhance the transformative potential of GE in their own contexts.

THE ANALYSIS OF INTEREST IN WRITING POETRY TEXT OF X GRADER STUDENTS OF VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT

This research was made to find out how interested students are in writing poetry texts and some factors that cause them. The research method which used in this research is descriptive qualitative with the type of research in the form of field research (field research). The research was conducted at SMK 2 Pacet from April 8th to 16th 2021 with numbers of samples as much as 38 people. From this study, the writer found that only about 10.8% of students expressed interest in literature, especially poetry while 83.8% of other students stated that they were not as that interested to poetry because poetry and about 6% of other students stated that they were not interested. From the research data, it can be concluded that students' interest in poetry writing activities is still under expectation.

Vita ceu harmonia. Jiří Carolides: A Poet and Composer between the Imperial Court and the New Town of Prague

Jiří Carolides was one of the most distinguished Czech Latin humanist poets, and in his works he combines interest in poetry with love for music. Already during his university studies, he wrote a congratulatory polyphonic composition, and he was also active as a composer when he was older. He came from a non-Catholic background, but he still managed to earn the title of poet laureate at the emperor’s court. His contacts with court intellectuals did not last long, but he had permanent ties the society of Prague’s Utraquist burghers. While he spent most of his time in Prague, and much of his poetry gives us an account of the people and buildings in Prague’s New Town, he maintained contacts with confraternities of literati and with lovers of music and of the arts in Bohemia and Moravia. From Carolides’s poetry, we also recognise his enthusiasm for music and singing, especially combined with his profound piety.

The noble mission of Nobel Laureate Sir Ronald Ross

The noble mission of Nobel Laureate Sir Ronald Ross

The Semiotic and the Symbolic: The Rejuvenative Effect of Writing in Mary Steele’s “Sonnet, 1795”

This paper aims to examine the eighteenth-century British poet, Mary Steele’s “Sonnet, 1795” in terms of the recuperative power of the act of writing and the relationship between the semiotic and the symbolic. The study suggests that the sonnet serves as the poetic testament to the symbolic and the real life of the historical author who aims to manage her emotional suffering and mental agony via the therapeutic act of writing. The female author has a confrontation with what is to be repressed on the symbolic through the poetic production on the semiotic that bears a witness to her traumatic experiences and physical losses. Through negation and sublimation, the author attains to order her chaotic cognitive and affective states and develop an awareness about the subconsciousness and what psychologically ails her. Therefore, she does not intend to improve her poetic abilities and self-actualize as an aspiring author being in search of a feminine sublime, but rather seeks refuge against the symbolic and applies poetry as a therapeutic device and a way of escaping from the reality. Within this context, there is a correlation between the symbolic and the semiotic, between the authorial interest in poetry and the inner motives of the female poet. Against this background, the study employs the theory of Julia Kristeva regarding the liaison between the literary creation and the literary figure, the redemptive power the poetics offers for the authorial persona and the renewing effect of the poetic production.

Illocutionary Acts Used in the Dead Poets Society Movie

The purpose of this study was to describe the category of illocutionary and reaction to illocutionary interlocutors expressed by the speakers used in the Dead Poets Society movie. The method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method. The object of the research is the Dead Poets Society movie script. Based on data analysis, the researcher found 72 utterances illocutionary acts, the dominant ones are Verdictives, namely Estimating and Behabitives, namely Complimenting, while the reaction of the interlocutor to illocutionary acts is dominated by Behabitives illocutionary acts, namely Applauding, and Expositives illocutionary acts, namely Denying. The researcher assumes the tendency of using inspired speech acts by the genre of movie, namely tragedy and drama because this movie features several characters show interest in poetry, and have conflicts between students, parents, and teachers when taught by Mr. Keating is considered to have deviated in principle from Welton Academy. The results of this study can be used as a reference in studying speech acts in pragmatics because, in this study, the researcher classified the types of illocutionary acts more easily based on Austin's theory.

Laying Bare the Device

What do experiential poet Bruce Andrews and former Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly have in common? On the surface, almost nothing—the former is a highly regarded, retired academic and the latter a disgraced TV host and conservative partisan. For a brief four minutes in 2006, however, the two met and discussed on national television the nature of politics and higher education, with predictable obtuseness on the part of O’Reilly. Nothing was concluded or conceded, and arguably nothing was learned. Yet both did portend a fundamental change to the operation of American political life. O’Reilly’s attempt was far more public (and destructive), but Andrews’s political project has remained confined to a small contingent of scholars. This article reexamines Andrews’s claim that the only effective means of political resistance can come from an experimental poetic practice that challenges the ideology of American individualism at the heart of contemporary sense making. The author argues that the limitations of this political project are instructive and relevant beyond the confines of a scholarly interest in poetry, which are revealed through readings of Harryette Mullen.

‘Behold, I tell you a mystery’: Tracing Faust’s Influences on Giorgio Agamben to and from International Law

Abstract It is a mystery as to why more is not made of the influence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust on Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s body of work. After all, as a great philosophical poet, and tremendously concerned with language, Goethe’s work could not have failed to capture Agamben’s attention, especially given his early and sustained interest in poetry. Indeed, Agamben cites Goethe in at least 12 of his works including: The Use of Bodies, Creation and Anarchy, Pilate and Jesus, The Kingdom and the Glory, Homo Sacer, The Signature of All Things, Stanzas, The End of the Poem, Potentialities, Karman, Adventure and Infancy and History. Crucially, the last five reference Goethe’s Faust directly. Thus, this paper seeks to remedy the relative lack of explicit engagement and demonstrate the strong, clear and persistent influence of Goethe’s Faust that underpins Agamben’s signature philological and philosophical approach to literarily explicating law’s foundational riddles. Agamben’s Homo Sacer, project – it must be recalled – quite accidentally began in part as a direct response to the legalistic justifications for the 1990–91 Gulf War. The present discussion seeks to demonstrate that Goethean influence ironically enough through a close examination of both Faust’s and Agamben’s attempts at partially translating a biblical phrase: ‘in the beginning was the word’.

Obituary

Obituary

APRESIASI SENI DALAM MENINGKATKAN SEMANGAT BELAJAR LITERASI EKONOMI

Good teaching and learning activities are teaching and learning activities that are not monotonous and saturating, because when learning is needed an atmosphere that provides comfort for learning so that students' minds stay focused, they also remain eager to continue learning, especially learning economic literacy. This study aims to determine the role of art appreciation as a negative reinforcement in increasing the enthusiasm of learning economic literacy of students during teaching and learning activities. This study used qualitative research methods. The data sources of this research are primary and secondary data. Primary data is data from observations and interviews, while secondary data is documentation (in the form of photographs). The participants of this research were level 2A students of the Economic Education Study Program FKIP Swadaya Gunung Jati University, who took 26 Kapita Selekta courses in Economic Education. Data analysis was performed qualitatively, namely data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The results of the analysis show that negative reinforcement that is positive, namely punishment with art appreciation can increase the enthusiasm of learning economic literacy of students, can also provide opportunities for students to appear in front of the class in order to hone and develop their talents and interests in poetry as well as singing, even if only on a scale The conclusion of this research is the appreciation of art, boredom and boredom that afflict students can be overcome. It only depends on the lecturer, when the right time for art appreciation is done while studying. Art appreciation is chosen because everyone likes and loves art, especially music. In this way, in addition to the punishment given can entertain and create a pleasant learning atmosphere, it can also hone the talents and interests of student art that are rarely displayed in public, especially in front of classmates and lecturers. Keywords: Art appreciation, enthusiasm for learning, economic literacy.

Reading Michelangelo/Michelangelo Reading

This article begins by examining the unusual and significant motif of reading found in Michelangelo’s Manchester Madonna (c.1497). Drawing on Neo-Platonic ideas of divine furor in poetry and prophecy, it attempts to connect Michelangelo’s depiction to his own growing interest in poetry, as a reader and, eventually, as a writer. It will suggest that Michelangelo’s engagement with claims about the inspired text shaped this depiction as he wrestled with the contrast between the words of the Tuscan poets and his own hesitant versifying. It will be shown that, while this painting is marked by a considerable originality in conception, it sits in distinct contrast to the laborious, derivative, and bodily nature of both Michelangelo’s early poetic experiments and also much of his later poetic production. This contrast between his poetic and artistic work was further inflected by the bodily labor associated with the visual arts and by the Neo-Platonic discourse of divine inspiration that excluded the visual artist. Turning to subsequent works such as the Pietà (1498–99) and the Sistine Chapel’s prophets and sibyls (after 1508), and contrasting these works with his less inspired poetical constructions, this article will chart Michelangelo’s evolving theoretical engagement with the role which labor and furor each played in his artistic production.

Kemal Özer’in Şiirlerinde Ölüm Teması

Edebiyat, yaşamı, kişisel ve toplumsal ilişkileri, bu ilişkilerin farklı boyutlarını estetik olarak sunan bir araçtır. Sanatçı toplumsal olaylara, değişimlere, gelişmelere kayıtsız kalamaz. Toplumdaki çatışmaları ve bağları edebiyatın kendine has yöntemleriyle dile getirir. Kişi ile toplumun çıkarları arasındaki uzlaşmazlığı ortadan kaldırmak için mevcut durumu algılama, anlama ve saptama olanağı sunar. Edebî hayatına öykü denemeleriyle başlayan, şiire ilgisi öyküye yöneliminden sonra devreye giren Kemal Özer, İkinci Yeni şiir anlayışından edindiği dilsel deneyimi toplumcu içerikle bütünleştirir. Özer’in şiir kitaplarında ölüm teması önemli bir yer tutar. Ölümle iç içe yaşamak durumunda kalan insan, bu kavramı tıbbî, dinî, felsefî, psikolojik ve sosyolojik açıdan farklı şekillerde algılar. Anlamı olayın yaşanmasına değil, daha çok olgu karşısındaki yorumlara bağlı olan ölüm, Özer’in şiirlerinde yas evresindeki analar için sevilen bir kişiye kavuşma ve onunla buluşmayı/ birleşmeyi ifade eder. Bazı şiir özneleri ve nesneleri içinse fiziksel ölüm fikirle, eserle, eylemle dünyadaki varlığını devam ettirmeye açılan kapıdır. Çalışmada Kemal Özer’in şiirlerinde fiziksel ölüm, ölen kişinin ardında bıraktığı kişiler tarafından tutulan yas ya da içinde bulunulan melankolik durumla açıklanmaya çalışıldı. Kişilerin psikolojik ve sosyolojik bakımdan yaşadığı ölüm ya da ölümsüzlük değerlendirildi.