The Poet Debates with His Friend's Mistress, Death

Résumé du livre

A primary mechanism by which poetry communicates intense psychological states is tension between form and content. This tension brings various aspects of a poem into communication with each other, creating an objective model of the psychological state being communicated. There are various methods of creating tension between form and content, several of which are explored in the present collection. The collection culminates with an extended narrative poem in meter, which form offers a number of effective means by which tension can be generated, and themes developed, explored and resolved.