Zusammenfassung der Ressource
"A poem is a painting"
Phoebe Hesketh
- Hesketh compares the
art of poetry to the art
of painting
- The speaker suggests that
both poetry and paintings
create images that are
brought to life in the
imaginations of the
poet/painter and the audience.
- Hesketh uses imagery, metaphors and
comparison in order to emphasise the
similarities between poetry and
painting.
- Her vivid and colourful
descriptions reinforce the
subject of her poem so that
words in poetry are used in
much of the same way as
colours on a canvas.
- in that they are used in order to create images in the minds of the audience.
- Opening two-lines, "poem is a painting that is not seen; A painting is a
poem that is not heard"
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