Reflection: Poetic Attentiveness
Examine the mode of poetic attentiveness cultivated by Dickinson and/or Baudelaire. You may want to consider, for example, the importance for these poets of boredom, intoxication, exoticism, mysticism, or voyeurism; the difference between Dickinson's domestic sphere and Baudelaire's street; and the relation between poetic form (rhyme, meter, and other musical qualities of the work) and the images & meanings conveyed.
no intro needed, start right away to talk about your chosen topic, include some quotes.
I attached some poems of Emily Dickinson under.
For Charles Baudelaire, you can google his poems: correspondences, head of hair, invitation to the voyage, landscape, the swan, the little old women, spleen 1-4.
feel free to chose from any of the poems that fits the discussion topics,
Its only one page, so try to focus on 1 to 2 topics and dig deeper on each one. you can talk about the relationship of 2 author, or you can talk about only one author.
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Poetic Attentiveness
A poem is often read as a set of formal, technical, and conventional devices that generate meaning or effect. The poetic language might be understood better as an instrument for turning and refining the audience's attention. Research in philosophy, aesthetics, and psychology proves that close reading of poems enhances the attention of individuals.
Alford says that poetic language might be better understood as an instrument for turning and refining the attention, identifying the crucial link between poetic form, as well as the forming of attention. She further offers new terminology for how poetic attention works and how attention becomes a subject and object in poetry. The poets of boredom help people to get rid of their tediousness and regain focus. A good example is: Of Bronze – and blaze – the North – tonight – so adequate – it forms. Evidently, she employs exoticism in the writings to displays mysticism. These poets create fantasies, which they tend to elaborate using imaginative pictures that draw the interest and attention of the reader.
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