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An ekphrasis poem is a form of poetry concerning itself with the visual arts, artistic objects, and/or highly visual scenes, but there is more to ekphrasis. What is ekphrasis in poetry (complete definition)?
word U S P XI dali
Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
CLERIHEW XIV ecphrasis kupkaCzech Frantisch Kupka
begaan his art abstracta
with 'Piano keys* he found fame
creatives in the verticl plane
...
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Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Treachery of Images Magritte - this is not a pipe -
take your thoughts
stuff them into a non thing
the thoughts
and the nothingness
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Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
word U S P X marc
Categories:
animal, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
CLERIHEW ecphrasis XLIII maurinCharles Maurin with talent to spare
an etching revolutionaire
His composition - allegorique*
best displays an enigmatic technique...
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Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
A Thing You Say Response To Beauty QueenPlush lips and a pouty face,
still I can’t hear a thing you say;
Distracted by all the work done
in the name of high fashion;
Now you look just like a toon,
sponged with what’s real covered...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, women,
Form: Ekphrasis
word U S P IX monet
Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
CLERIHEW ecphrasis XLII hughesPainter Arthur Hughes
in pre-raphaelite who' who's
'April Love'* a reverse ecphrasis
depicting a love affair in crisis...
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Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Still Life with Table Lamp, LichtensteinSometimes the information just stops
It's all squared off, but it feels too little
Perhaps we can't trust what we see
Maybe everything is between the lines
All I need for this image is stored already
I've read that paper...
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Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Roots and Dandelion Dreams: A Mother's HeartRoots and Dandelion Dreams: A Mother's Heart
- Daniel Henry Rodgers
At dawn's first blush,
milkweed pods,
burst with a sigh,
A feathery shower of,
silk sending secrets...
on the wind's soft cry.
Yesterday,
a crown of fragile pink,...
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Categories:
heart, love, mothers day,
Form: Ekphrasis
word U S P VIII matisse
Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
CLERIHEW ecphrasis XLI munch once moreRomantically symbolic for sure
Munch's metaphor takes the floor
here in the Dance of Life*
so many are especially rife...
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Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
word U S P VII vermeer
Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
CLERIHEW ecphrasis XL munch againViolinist Eva Mudocci
appears in the 'Brooch'* as you can see
One of many of his models
perhaps they were cuddled as well...
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Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
CLERIHEW ecphrasis XXXIX munchThe 'Voice-Summer night'*
Edvard Munch first love at sight
Milly ever on his mind
a dalliance of the romantic kind...
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Categories:
art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Specific Types of Ekphrasis Poems
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Definition | What is Ekphrasis in Poetry?