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

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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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