Closed Form - Poetry

Poetry

  • In poetry analysis, a type of poetry that exhibits regular structure, such as meter or a rhyming pattern;
  • Trobar clus, an allusive and obscure style adopted by some 12th-century troubadours.

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    “It is at the same time by poetry and through poetry, by and through music, that the soul glimpses the splendors found behind the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings tears to one’s eyes, these tears are not the sign of excessive pleasure, they are rather witness to an irritated melancholy, to a condition of nerves, to a nature exiled to imperfection and which would like to seize immediately, on this very earth, a revealed paradise.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    “I cannot say what poetry is; I know that our sufferings and our concentrated joy, our states of plunging far and dark and turning to come back to the world—so that the moment of intense turning seems still and universal—all are here, in a music like the music of our time, like the hero and like the anonymous forgotten; and there is an exchange here in which our lives are met, and created.”
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

    “A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)