ART JOURNALING and THE POET [Surprise Insightful Information]

ART JOURNALING

and

THE POET

[Surprise Insightful Information]

BLOG SESSION

December 16, 2017

Good Afternoon Poets, Poetry Lovers, Blog Readers, Followers & Visitors ~ We're back for what promises to be "Surprise Insightful Information" about ART JOURNALING and THE POET!

If you were here for our last Blog Session, then you learned about the famous poet ~ Nikki Giovanni.  Giovanni is not only a Famous American Poet, but also a Writer, as well as a Commentator,  Activist, and Educator.  Giovanni was also recently named as one of Oprah Winfrey’s 25 "Living Legends".  [You may review our last Blog Session on Giovanni by clicking here on this link or you may check out any of our past Blog Sessions in the far right-hand Column under the header "Blog Archive"].

We are going to go over this Surprise Insightful Information about ART JOURNALING and THE POET in this Blog Session so that all of the Poets here, as well as those of you who are lovers of Poetry, will understand the importance of Art in combination with Journaling.

Visual Art has a way of opening up your senses.  Just by taking the time to view artworks, you are allowing yourself to experience creative works realized.  Viewing art has a way of taking your mind in a different direction from the typical mundane daily exercises of life ~ not that your life is mundane of course.

ART, including Photography and nature ~

is like medicine to the soul . . .

If you are a Poet, then you are creative by nature.  You create written works that invoke thought, and in some cases (many cases) your poetry has a rhythmic flow that summons the reader to flow right along with you.

What happens dear poet when your write?  Does your mind transport to another location?  Do you visualize things that you were not at all thinking about when your hand positioned your pen and your creativity first started flowing at writing down the poetry within you?  Does your poetry stir up the Artist in you?

If you are a visual poet, then you would do well to also try your hand at creating artworks to accompany your poetry.  You'll surprise yourself even if you think that you are not an artist.

Artist at work

Likewise, if you are an artist, you may want to try your hand at writing poetry if you have never done so before.

A good way to get started with the combination of poetry and art is to purchase a beautiful Journal to motivate you to get busy . . .

ART JOURNAL

(For the Artist & Poet in You!)

Many of the Blog Followers here are also Google Users, and many here are also members of our Art Community online on Google.  The Members in our Art Community are Artists, Poets, Photographers, Designers, Authors, Writers, Singers, Musicians, Animators, Innovators, Creatives, admirers of Fine Art, and many are aspiring artists and poets.  We have a very friendly environment in our Community and have been on Google for a few years now.  Prior to coming over to Google, Artistic Minds®, as well as all of our connected Sites (including one for Poets with well over 10,000 members) were located on another Site mainly intended for Authors and Writers.  After seven years, when the Site closed out, we moved over to Google.  Although we have other Sites, we invite you to join us in our Google community and welcome you to follow our Collection on Google as well.

You are cordially invited to join us on Google to be inspired and to learn more in our Artistic Minds® Community or you may also Follow us by signing up to be a part of our connected Artistic Minds® Collection.  [Simply click on either link to get there].  If you are a Google User, you may sign up to follow the Collection.  You may also join our Community and share your talent and posts with us.  If you are not a Google User, why not just sign up with Google!

Your interests have a profound affect on what you write about, what you create, and what you visualize.  Whatever it is that motivates you, write about it ~ draw it ~ paint it ~ sing about it ~ dance to the rhythm of your heart song.

We thank you for following along with us on the Blog here in our diverse Sessions.  Your comments are welcome in our "Comments Section" at the bottom of any of our Blog Sessions.

OUR NEXT BLOG SESSION:

Poet Sylvia Plath

Until our next Blog Session Poets & Poetry Lovers ~

Peace, Love & Light

By René Allen

©Copyright - René Allen - 2014-2017 - All Rights Reserved

FAMOUS POETS

FAMOUS POETS

BLOG SESSION

December 11th, 2017

Good Afternoon Blog Readers, Followers, Poets, Poetry Lovers & Visitors ~ We are back for another great Blog Session about Famous Poets!

Today's Blog Session will shed light on some Famous Poets.  If you are a Poet, or a poetry lover, you'll need to grab your Journal to take notes.

Can you imagine a time back in the day when there was a certain Poet that amazed poetry readers with his poetics, and still does to this day?  Take a look at who this man is . . .

Edgar Allan Poe

January 19, 1809 - October 07, 1849

(Died at age 40)

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.  Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.  He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.  He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

FAMOUS LITERARY WORKS:

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (published 1845) Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. [Excerpt]

Alfred Lord Tennyson

1809 - 1892

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

A number of phrases from Tennyson's work have become commonplaces of the English language, including "Nature, red in tooth and claw" (In Memoriam A.H.H.), "Tis better to have loved and lost/Than never to have loved at all", "Theirs is not to reason why,/Theirs but to do and die", "My strength is as the strength of ten,/Because my heart is pure", "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield", "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers", and "The old order changeth, yielding place to new".

Alfred Lord Tennyson is the ninth most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

Oscar Wilde

Born October 16, 1854 in Dublin, Ireland

Died November 30, 1900 in Paris, France

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright.  After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.  He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

Oscar Wilde was a Poet and a Dramatist whose reputation rests on his only Novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891),  and on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).  He was a spokesman for the late 19th-century Aesthetic movement in England, which advocated art for art's sake, and he was the object of celebrated civil and criminal suits involving homosexuality and ending in his imprisonment (1895-97).

Wilde was born of professional and literary parents.  His father, Sir William Wilde, was Ireland's leading ear and eye surgeon, who also published books on archaeology, folklore, and the satirist Jonathan Swift.  His mother, who wrote under the name Speranza, was a revolutionary poet and an authority on Celtic myth and folklore.

In the final decade of his life, Wilde wrote and published nearly all of his major work.  In his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (published in Lippincott’s Magazine, 1890, and in book form, revised and expanded by six chapters, 1891), Wilde combined the supernatural elements of the Gothic novel with the unspeakable sins of French decadent fiction.  Critics charged immorality despite Dorian’s self-destruction; Wilde, however, insisted on the amoral nature of art regardless of an apparently moral ending.  Intentions (1891), consisting of previously published essays, restated his aesthetic attitude toward art by borrowing ideas from the French poets Theophile Gautier and Charles Baudelaire and the American painter James McNeill Whistler.  In the same year, two volumes of stories and fairy tales also appeared, testifying to his extraordinary creative inventiveness: Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, and Other Stories and A House of Pomegranates.

T. S. Eliot

Born September 26,1888

Died January 4, 1965

(Died at age 76)

Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM was a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".  He moved from his native United States to England in 1914 at the age of 25, settling, working, and marrying there.  He eventually became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39, renouncing his American citizenship.

• Awards:  Nobel Prize in Literature (1948); Tony Award for Best Play (1950); Tony Award for Best Original Score (1983); Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (1983); Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical (1981); Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Broadway Musical (1983); Outer Critics Award for Best Play (1950)

Movies:  Cats ~ Murder in the Cathedral ~ The Waste Land

OUR NEXT BLOG SESSION:

MORE FAMOUS POETS!

When we come back,

get ready to learn more

inspirational information

for the Poet in you!

Peace, Love & Light

By René Allen

©Copyright - René Allen - 2014-2017 - All Rights Reserved 

Let's talk about POETRY!

Let's talk about POETRY!

BLOG SESSION

December 10th, 2017

Welcome back to another fantastic Blog Session about a literary topic that many of our Followers are interested in ~ either because they love writing poetry or because they love reading poetry.

POETRY is for those who understand literary works of art that have a special intensity that is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.  Poems collective or as a genre of literature are for those who love writing what is dwelling deep within them calling out for expression.

If you would, take a moment to grab your Journal so that you can take notes about this Session on poetry.

Journal Notes

Poetry is an art.  It is worthwhile to understand the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative or elevated thoughts.

Poetry involves a literary work in metrical form and/or verse.  Make a note that whenever you are dealing with poetry, you are dealing with prose with poetic qualities.  Poetic qualities however manifested involve the poetry of simple acts and simplistic things in life.  Poets can write about events in life, thoughts on their mind, or random sights and sounds.

Below is a listing of the various forms of poetry and the genres of poetry.  You can do your research on each item listed.

FORMS OF POETRY:

Sonnet

Shi

Villanelle

Limerick

Tanka

Ode

Ghazal

Haiku

Iambic Pentameter

Free Verse

Aesthetics

Rhyme

Ballad

Metaphor

Genres of Poetry:

Narrative poetry

Lyric poetry

Epic poetry

Satirical poetry

Elegy

Verse fable

Dramatic poetry

Speculative poetry

Prose poetry

Light poetry

You'll find each area worth looking into.  When we come back for our next Blog Session, you'll be introduced to many Famous Poets!

OUR NEXT BLOG SESSION:

FAMOUS POETS

When we come back let us pull out the Poet in you!

Peace, Love & Light

By René Allen

©Copyright - René Allen - 2014-2017 - All Rights Reserved