The Poetic Principle Essays

  • Experience as a Coach in Interacting With the Coachee

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    with the coachee involves an understanding of the basic foundations in Appreciative coaching, which focuses on 5 main principles. These principles, which will each be discussed in detail, include: • Construction Principle • Positive Principle • Simultaneous Principle • Poetic Principle • Anticipatory Principle As pointed out in the Construction Principle and Positive Principle, coaching sometimes involves bringing out the positive attributes and successes of a person, rather than the negative

  • Appreciative Inquiry Essay

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    individuals that work for them, and the reality that exist. This goes along with the idea of the Poetic Principle. It is one of many theories that are used to understand Appreciative Inquiry but, to me, it is the most important stage leading into the 4D cycle. An organization cannot reach the first discovery stage without the right attitude towards each individual and their value. The Poetic Principle believes that in story between the individual and the organization. The two can build off one another

  • The Influence of Poetry and Prose

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    Edgar Allan Poe that is a name we all should know. Poe is known for his dark, gothic short stories and poems. Poe also is known for his “Poetic Principle.” This principle professes that “through poetry one achieves beauty and through prose one achieves truth.” Some people beg to differ with this statement, while I for one concur with it. Even though people presume that beauty cannot be attained by poetry because beauty is simply an aesthetic thing and that truth cannot be attained by prose because

  • Poetry, History, and Dialectic

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    Poetry, History, and Dialectic Twice in the Poetics, Aristotle contrasts poetry with history. Whatever its didactic value, the contrast has not seemed to readers of special philosophical interest. The aim of this paper is to show that this contrast is philosophically significant not just for our understanding of tragedy but also for the light it sheds on Aristotle’s overall methodology. I shall show how he uses the method sketched in the Topics to define tragedy and explain why the same method

  • Analysis Of Walt Whitm The Dawn Of Jacksonian Democracy

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    Transcendentalism, combined with American industrialization, urbanization, and immigration to set a predominant tone of originality and individuality. Walt Whitman, while in his earlier years, formed a unique poetic style incorporating free verse, anaphoras, catalogues, and his famous poetic “I” that all symbolically and literally reflected this dramatic shift in American culture. “I Hear

  • An Annotation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The City in the Sea

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    An Annotation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The City in the Sea Edgar Allan Poe had his own unique view on what poetry should be. A lecture he wrote, “The Poetic Principle,” covers his viewpoints and sheds light on many of his poems. We will use it to examine “The City in the Sea.” First, Poe felt that the goal of all poetry should be Beauty. What is poetry? It is not the mere “oral or written repetition of forms, and sounds and colors and odors, and sentiments.” No, whoever just repeats his experiences

  • Poetry And Poetic Elements In Poetry

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    McPoem When on a search for poetry in the media, one does not have to look very hard. Poetry and poetic elements are included in a wide variety of texts and multimedia that we see, read, and interact with daily. Books, magazines, movies, and songs are strong, obvious examples of this. More unorthodox poetry is found on t-shirts, in news headlines, and in advertisements. Similarly, poetry is fundamental in the representation of a brand through its slogan. Businesses develop a slogan that exemplifies

  • Essay On Wisdom Literature

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    Introduction According to Hill and Walton, biblical scholars acknowledge that poetic/wisdom literature comprises about one third of the Hebrew Old Testament. Although the book of Psalms, Proverbs, and Song of Songs are entirely poetic in form, they are considered wisdom books with exception to the wisdom psalms. Most of Job and portions of Ecclesiastes are poetic, but they are also considered wisdom books. According to Longman, the identification of a particular genre determines the interpretation

  • Summary of The Theory of the Formal Method

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    literariness. Their ideas are still evolving and thus, the essay is just an image of the current state. Eichen- baum says that for Formalists, theory and history merge not only in words but also in facts. The Formalist approach has scientific principles, thus it is objective, scientific and allows to study literature systematically. He says that they are not advocates of a certain method but students of an object. The Formalists passed through various states. First, the movement started out

  • A Critical Analysis Of William Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey?

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    and the landscape itself. This text can be used as an example to identify different uses of the poetic form. In the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth addresses three main points regarding poetic principles, including: language and the subject of poetry, a poet’s role as one who challenges social norms, a poet’s relation to nature, and the reflective quality of poetic writings. Each of these principles are exemplified in his poem, Tintern Abbey, composed in 1798. First, Wordsworth demonstrates

  • The Writings of Sophocles and Aristotle

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    these rules date back to Aristotle, who set down some rules for classical drama in his Poetics, a collection of class notes in which Aristotle attempted "to treat of Poetry in itself and of its various kinds" (1028). These rules, adhered to by great writers for centuries, were preceded by at least one great classical work: Sophocles' Oedipus the King. Interestingly, even though Oedipus the King came before Poetics, Sophocles' play illustrates Aristotle's rules for classical drama. Oedipus the King

  • Pope's An Essay on Criticism

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    about the prodigy's efforts. One history of criticism textbook describes the work rather ingloriously: "There are repetitions and inconsistencies, some conventional pronouncements along with injunctions of lasting value; but nowhere . . . are the principles organized into a coherent whole, and no cut-and-dried theory [of criticism] therefore emerges" (in Morris 145).2 Despite this harsher pronouncement, Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism 1 Johnson's evaluation of Pope's Essay has been upheld if

  • Comparing Dracula By Bram Stoker And Hamlet By William Shakespeare

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    Final Project: Part I Dracula by Bram Stoker and Hamlet by William Shakespeare, two literary masterpieces separated by centuries, both wield the English language like a finely tuned instrument, crafting narratives that have transcended time and captivated generations. These works exemplify distinct yet equally influential periods in English literature, each employing language in a manner that profoundly resonates with the reader. The choice to analyze Dracula and Hamlet stems from an appreciation

  • Poetry and Private Language

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    inadequate to capture, portray, do justice to, the quality and intensity of the inner life; (2) the Empathy Thesis: descriptions of certain kinds of experiences can only be (adequately) understood by a person who has had similar experiences; (3) the Poetic Thesis, which has two parts: (a) only through poetry can we hope to overcome the problem of the Inadequacy Thesis and (b) the difficulty of (some) poetry is at least partly explained by the Empathy Thesis. The paper argues that there are important

  • William Blake's Mind-Forg D Manacles

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    William Blake viewed English society as being bound with “mind-forg’d manacles” (London 2:4), the limits or social norms keeping us from being totally free, demonstrating Blake’s disapproval of England’s societal structure. In fact, Blake saw many problems within English society such as the power of the church, child labor, and monarchical structure. Moreover, Blake’s view was so profoundly negative that he looked at the French Revolution as the start of a new world. The French Revolution’s act of

  • Walter Fisher's Narrative Paradigm

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    There are three functions of narrative theory: poetic, dialectical and rhetorical. Poetic function observes the transformation of relationships, dialectical gives the presentation of truth and rhetorical offers analytical and evaluative readings of narratives and narrative elements in situated discourse or acts aimed

  • Tartuffe: An Excellent Example of a Neoclassical Drama

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    Tartuffe is an excellent example of a neoclassical drama because of its close adherence to the guidelines set forth in Aristotle’s Poetics, its use of character structure, and its incorporation of the common neoclassical ideas involving: reason, rational thinking, as well as logical problem solving. During the beginning of the 17th Century neoclassical thought began to dominate the stage in France. In the domain of theatre, this meant that neoclassical writers began to look back to the ideals and

  • Coleridge and the Relation in-between Poet and Critic

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    toward the composition of a kind of larger theoretical poem (whole)? In other words, can one use Coleridge's art criticism to comment upon his practice as a theorist? Are his aesthetic ideas applicable to his practice as a critic of the practice of poetic composition? Is it possible that some leverage could be obtained by torquing Coleridge's theoretical statements about poetry in particular and art in general to comment on his own compositional practice as a critic? Quite simply, is Coleridge's theory

  • Edgar Allan Poe

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    poet works in an emotion of pure inspiration. Instead, Poe wrote a carefully planned description of poetic creation. The essay analyzes the central role of the conscious choice of an emotional atmosphere that is more important than events, characters, and the lyrics. Poe also offered his famous statement “the death of a beautiful woman is the most poetical topic in the world.” In "The Poetic Principle" (1850), Poe claimed that poetry works to achieve "an elevating excitement of the soul," an emotional

  • Japanese Literature

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    view it as a denotation of refinement. As a result, there were various changes and innovations to Japanese literature when entering into the medieval period. This included literature written from new perspectives, the spread of religion, and new poetic devices (including one new form of poetry) were created. Works Cited LaFleur, William R. The Karma of Words: Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan. 1983: University of California Press, Berkeley. McCullough, Helen Craig. Classical