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Ekphrastic Poetry

Ekphrastic Poetry. A Study in Art and Language. ekphrasis. n. “ Composed from the Greek words ek (out) and phrazein (tell, declare, pronounce), ekphrasis originally meant ‘ telling in full. ’ . . . [I]t was [later] made to designate the description of visual art. ”

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Ekphrastic Poetry

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  1. Ekphrastic Poetry A Study in Art and Language

  2. ekphrasis. n. “Composed from the Greek words ek (out) and phrazein (tell, declare, pronounce), ekphrasis originally meant ‘telling in full.’ . . . [I]t was [later] made to designate the description of visual art.” - James A. W Hefferman

  3. ekphrasis. n. “Technical term of ancient rhetoric: teachers of rhetoric defined it as a vivid description intended to bring the subject before the mind’s eye of the listener.” - artnet.com Resource Library

  4. Rind by Catherine A. Callaghan (1999) The critic resolves her sonnets into empty feet. The boss rejects proposals he has barely skimmed. The husband compares her pilaf to swill for hogs. The gas she hopes will kill her leaks away. The analyst unpeels her till she disappears. Art by M.C. Escher http://www.puddinghouse.com/ekphrastic.htm

  5. Pieter Bruegel. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. c. 1558 http://www.people.virginia.edu/~djr4r/icarus.html

  6. LA GIOCONDA LEONARDO DA VINCI The Louvre Historic, side-long, implicating eyes; A smile of velvet's lustre on the cheek; Calm lips the smile leads upward; hand that lies Glowing and soft, the patience in its rest Of cruelty that waits and doth not seek For prey; a dusky forehead and a breast Where twilight touches ripeness amorously: Behind her, crystal rocks, a sea and skies Of evanescent blue on cloud and creek; Landscape that shines suppressive of its zest For those vicissitudes by which men die. by Michael Field Leonardo da Vinci. Mona Lisa (La Gioconda). c. 1503-1506. Musée du Louvre, Paris. http://www.people.virginia.edu/~djr4r/monalisa.html

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