Lesson: Poetry and photography - poetry and photographic images(updated)

Updated 31.7.07

TASK: Explore the similarities and differences in how poetry (especially short poems such as a haiku) register feelings/experiences c.f photographs - as opposed to documenting aspects of the real (external) world.

An old pond!
A frog jumps in-
The sound of water.

“In every picture there’s a poem;
In every poem a picture.”
Chinese proverb

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Poetry (excerpt)

This rich fountain of the spirit I call the poetic heart the poetic heart that is the source of all human creativity and power of imagination It fashions the dreams and daring and hopes of this earth creates harmony and concord It possesses a force no person whosoever can defy It transforms the wasteland within us into a fertile plain Great poems trenchantly capture the truth of that human life force that blends with and beats in rhythm with nature and the universe They overflow with compassion and feeling for all beings They rouse and call forth the poetic heart in others They bring out the flower and fragrance in human nature This I believe: restitution of the poetic heart means nothing less than transforming the coming age into the century of the human being

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Q. How poetic is the above fragment? More philosophy than poetry?

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Find/create other haiku.

Find/create even more suitable photographs.

Write your own haiku (don’t get too hung up on number of syllables).

Explore other forms of short poems.

Explore other ways of how the ‘imagistic’ and the word, written and spoken, interact.

More to follow.

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