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“ARS POETICA” BY: ARCHIBALD MACLEISH

ENERGIZER

1. At the onset of World War I, Mac-Leish volunteered as _____driver, • an ambulance

2. he worked in Boston as a _____but found that the position distracted him from his poetry. • lawyer

3. Mac. Leish won the ______for his efforts in 1932. • Pulitzer Prize

4. In 1939, President Franklin D Roosevelt persuaded him to accept an appointment as _______of Congress. • Librarian

5. In 1949 Archibald Macleish retired from his political activism to become ____Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory • Harvard's

6. And in 1965 he received an ______ Award for his work on the screenplay of The Eleanor Roosevelt Story. • Academy

7. WHAT DOES “ARS POETICA” MEAN? • ART OF POETRY

8. WHAT LITERARY STYLE DID MACLEISH USE IN “ARS POETICA”? • INTIMATION (HINT) RATHER THAN A FULL STATEMENT.

• 3 PRINCIPAL DIVISION • 3 UNITS OF RHYMED DOUBLE-LINE STANZAS • LINES 1 -8, 9 -16, 17 -24

9. WHAT IS THE TONE OF THE POEM? • LIGHT, PEN-SIVE, WISTFUL

10. WHAT IS THEME OF THE POEM? • DEFINING WHAT POETRY REALLY IS IN THE BROADER SENSE.

LESSON PROPER

Biography • Archibald Mac. Leish was born in Glencoe, Illinois, on May 7, 1892.

• First educated at Hotchkiss School, Mac. Leish later studied at Yale and Harvard Law School, where he was first in his class.

• Although he focused his studies on law, he also began writing poetry during this time.

• In 1916 he married Ada Hitchcock.

• Mac. Leish won the Pulitzer Prize for his efforts in 1932.

• During that period, he wrote two radio dramas to increase patriotism and warn Americans against fascism.

• After World War II, Mac. Leish became the first American member of the governing body of UNESCO, and chaired the first UNESCO conference in Paris.

• His Collected Poems (1952) won him a second Pulitzer Prize, as well as the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize

. J. B. (1958), a verse play based on the book of Job, earned him a third Pulitzer, this time for drama.

• “ARS POETICA” IS SAID TO BE THE ULTIMATE EXPRE-SSION OF AMERICAN STYLE “ART FOR ART’S SAKE”

• Archibald Mac. Leish died in April 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE • METAPHORICAL LANGUAGE • GREEK WORD “METAPHEREIN” WHICH MEANS “TO CARRY BEYOND IT’S LITERAL MEANING. ”

SIMILE • STATES COMPARISON INTRODUCED BY “LIKE” OR “AS”. EX. “A POEM SHOULD BE PALPABLE AND MUTE AS A GLOBED FRUIT. ”

PERSONIFICATION • GIVING HUMAN ATTRIBUTE TO INANIMATE OBJECTS. • EX. “LEAVING AS THE MOON RELEASES…”

LEXIS A. 1. PALPABLE 2. GLOBED 3. LEDGES 4. CASEMENT 5. MEDALLION 6. ENTANGLED B. A. ENSNARE, ENTRAP, INTERWEAVE B. OBVIOUS, FELT, PROFOUND, CLEAR C. ROUNDED, ROTUND D. GRAPHIC, PAINTING E. PENDANT, DECORATION F. HINGED WINDOW G. SHELF, RACK

POETRY • literature in verse: written in high quality, great beauty, emotional sincerity , intensity, and pro-found insight.

ELEMENTS OF POETRY: 1. LANGUAGE -WHETHER SIMPLE, LOFTY OR ELOQUENT.

2. TONE -ATMOSPHERE, FEELING, ATTITUDE.

3. IMAGERY -TOTAL SENSORY SUGGESTION OF POETRY • VISUAL, AUDITORY, TACTILE • GUSTATORY, BODILY

4. SOUND AND RHYTHMS -THE KIND OF NUMBER OF FOOT PATTERNS IN EACH LINE. • IAMB (a metrical foot), TRIMETER, PENTAMETER • MASCULINE/ FEMININE RIME SOUND DEVICES

5. THOUGHT OR MEANING - “HOW DOES A POEM MEAN? ” REENACTMENT OF AN EXPERIENCE RATHER THAN ARRIVAL AT THOUGHT.

“Ars Poetica”

A POEM SHOULD BE PALPABLE AND MUTE AS A GLOBED FRUIT

Dumb As old medallions to the thumb

Silent as the sleeveworn stone Of casement ledges where the moss has grown -

A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds

A poem should be motionless in time As the moon climbs

Leaving, as the moon releases Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,

Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves Memory by me-mory the mind -

A poem should be motionless in time As the moon climbs

A poem should be equal to: Not true

For all the history of grief An empty doorway and a maple leaf

For love The leaning grasses and two lights above the

A poem should not mean

COMPREHENSION CHECK: 1. WHAT DOES THE AUTHOR MEAN BY THE LINE; “ A POEM SHOULD NOT MEAN BUT BE? ”

2. STATE ALL THE IMAGERY FOUND IN THE SELECTION.

3. WHAT IS POETIC LICENSE OR POETIC JUSTICE?

4. HOW DOES POETRY TRANCENDS BOUNDARIES?

5. WHAT ARE THE SYM-BOLISMS USED IN THE POEM?

• APPROPRIATENESS OF THE TITLE: 6. IS THE TITLE APPROPRIATE? WHY OR WHY

7. WHAT ARE THE FIGURA-TIVE LANGUAGE USED?

• Horace (65 - 8 BC) Roman poet. The origin of "artistic license. " • Ars Poetica

“Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare any -thing. We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence. ”

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