National University Of Modern Languages(NUML)

Islamabad

Topic:
Dimensions of poetry
Name: Faiz Ullah
Program: BS-Bridging 1st A
Subject: Introduction to literary studies
Submitted to: Ms. Zeinab Jehangir
Submission Date: 23rd June,2023
Dimensions of poetry

To achieve the concrete character poetic language can be achieved on

1. Lexical thematic dimension

2. Visual dimension
3. Rhythmic acoustic dimension

Lexical thematic dimension

Concrete noun and images are added to achieve this as by Thomas gray elegy

Philosophical text remains abstract in expression. Poetry tries to convey them through images. Images often
serves the additional function of symbol.
There are two types pf symbols
1. Common symbol (used in albatross)
2. Private symbol (used in rime of ancient mariner)

Figure of speech includes metaphor and smile

Simile is the comparison between two different object which are connected by like as than

Robert burns poem is the example

Oh my love is like a red, red rose

Metaphor the equation of pne thing with another without actual comparison
To see a world in a grain of sand

Concrete images drawn in precise language rather than poetic diction and meter. The idea was recreating
the physical experience of an object through words

The apparition of these face in the crowd

Petals on a wet, black bough

Visual dimension
Visual art concentrate on poems shape and visual appearance
George Herbert poems are the examples
The Easter Wings
The altar

Rhythmic acoustic dimension

Sound and tone are added to achieve this concrete quality. Certain lines

or stanzas relate to content of statement

Meter and rhyme are further devices in acoustic dimension that held a dominant position in analysis pf
poem they are relatively easy to objectify and measure

Meter

The smallest element pf meter is syllabus

The lines can be divided into feet’s. Feet’s are of four types
1. Iambic
2. Trochee
3. Anapest
4. Dactyl

Rhyme

Correspondence of sound between the ending of words

There are three types of rhyme

1. Internal rhyme:
Internal rhyme are alliteration and assonance
Alliteration I the repetition of same consonant sound at the beginning of words in a
single line
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sound across the word within the lines of poem
creating internal rhyme
2. End rhyme:

Identical syllable at the end of certain line. Letter of alphabet are used for identification

3. Eye rhyme:

It stands between visual and acoustic dimension. Similarity in spelling but not in
pronunciation