Perhaps photography offered the poet an escape from the pressures of verbal composition, providing him with a way of taking in reality more directly, via image instead of language.
Proponents of instrumental genres will and should guffaw at the notion that parsing sung or spoken language is the only or best way to do serious critical work, and at the presupposition that non-verbal compositions are somehow less narrative or revealing.
Barry Singer laments the disappearance of "the notion of lyric writing as craft, a verbal equivalent of melodic composition, grounded in wit and elegant wordplay" ["Where Have All the Lyric Writers Gone?," Feb. 20].
Their notion of lyric writing as a craft, a verbal equivalent of melodic composition, grounded in wit and elegant wordplay, is today so thoroughly antiquated that one can barely find a context for it.
There were cityscapes seen from his tenement windows, and jazzy compositions based on verbal and visual puns.
The researchers can then check up the recordings with the system afterward to review and pinpoint every single symbol, comment, and correction marked on the compositions and the verbal description reporting what the participants had in mind during the marking process.
The exact verbal equivalent of these multiple-miniature compositions was "I Remember".
We must reimagine composition, therefore, as a discipline that teaches a composite literacy that integrates verbal and visual media within hypertext.
This is a form of bullying to achieve sociocultural dominance over an opposing political group, the direction of which appeared to depend on the composition of the organization concerned: secularist-dominated organizations featured the verbal bullying of Islamists, and Islamist-dominated organizations featured the verbal bullying of secularists.
It's a medical scene that involves both physical and verbal comedy and that derives its humor from the crucial intersection of performance and visual composition.
The composition of words on page or screen was just one element in that verbal system, but it was the one that caused writers most thrills and fret.
