Posté le 18 novembre 2014 - par therhythmofwords
Poetry : a way of expression ?
In this article, I would try to discuss in which sens poetry can be considered as a way of expression. Roughly speaking, it is often said rules lock creativity. In figurative painting for example, swarm of beginners think instructions lock creativity. If the teacher ask for drawing a landscape with a church, pupil can think it is not a painting really from him, because it is not what he really wants to do. However, perhaps creativity resides in the composition of landscape and the way to draw the church far more than in the theme. In poetry, for some authors poetry rules lock creativity. Indeed, in a first approach there is few words which could fairly describe a given situation. It seems the rules of poetry restrict again this choice. This apparent contradiction could be solved in a first part. Even more, nowadays it is thought not only poetry rules lock creativity but also language rules. There are poems where syntax rules are broken. However it appears without language codes, communication is in danger. The place of communication and consequently the place of the reader in creation is put at stake. It could be the object of a second part. Finally, the poetry works on sound as well as on sense, creating a new use of language. This non-restrictive language reveals more possibilities for the expression of a life perception. It could be a third time in argumentation.
This article corresponds to the introduction of a made-up commentary. I think school commentary process is convincing at writting.
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1 décembre 2014
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#11 a dit:
To illustrate your point of view about the rules which prevent creativity, maybe you could use example from the french surrealist movement during the last century (like André Breton or Paul Eluard). This movement said « no rules », and sense in sentence don’t matter. Sometime results are strange or unconventionality, but poems show that you don’t need necessarily code to write an interesting poem sense with important message.
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6 décembre 2014
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therhythmofwords a dit:
On the one hand, I agree with you. Little by little, I think from classic to surrealist there are rules broken. On the other hand, there is also the work of Oulipo (Gearges Pennec, Alain Badiou…) which creates non-sense rules for being creative.