If the so-called Confessionalists were ever in error about the limits of self-expressive verse--and, to the extent we may even speak of them as a coherent group, they manifestly were--it was in their presumption that our personal experience of language is primarily metaphoric (transcendent) rather than visceral (immanent).
(Picture book; ages 7 to 12) This heart-on-its-sleeve collaboration between writer father and illustrator son mixes stirring verse with expressive panoramas that mix thematic events across time: African slaves, Chinese railroad laborers and Detroit factory workers in one tableau.
Second Isaiah contains the very expressive so-called Servant Songs chapter 42, verses 1 4; chapter 49, verses 1 6; chapter 50, verses 4 9; chapter 52, verse 13; and chapter 53, verse 12. Writing from Babylon, the author begins with a message of comfort and hope and faith in Yahweh.
Theorists advocated a rigid regularity; minor poets composed in a strictly regular syllable-stress verse devoid of expressive variations.
Ernst van Heerden, another major poet who emerged in the 1940s, veered from tightly structured, rather impersonal verse to freer forms expressive of human vulnerability.
In the end, though, Raines choice of verse proves a fitting expressive vehicle for the history of this bewildering century--in which public truth gives way to private impulse, and human beings torn from one another and from themselves must look to poetic fiction to decipher the enigma of a chaotic and unintelligible life.
Muhammad Yamin and other prominent poets at this time were influenced by the forms and expressive modes of Romantic, Parnassian, and Symbolist verse from Europe.
Orfeo sends the others away and sings of his grief in the aria "Chiamo il mio ben"/"Objet de mon amour", the three verses of which are preceded by expressive recitatives.
The juxtaposition of haiku and free verse, family tree and personal photographs, the lyric expressive style and the documentary mode, and the author's note and paratextual material contributes to the overall collage aesthetic and confessional experience.
Bedsitter is cut from the same cloth as Tainted Love: sparse production, highlighting the simple, repetitive synth lines, the expressive vocal and the almost burlesque uh-uh hook cueing the verse.
Chris Riddell's expressive and vital illustrations capture the many and varied moods and rhythms of Michael Rosen's verses.
