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Sylvia ( F P C D ) at 2009-03-23

Not a waste of time. Excellent article and has peeked my interest in this form.

Valedico ( F P C D ) at 2009-03-23

Valuable article, as expected. As stated above, it has interested me to a high degree.

sibyllene ( F P C D ) at 2009-05-04

Nice article! I should read these more often. The title of this one caught my eye, because some of my art history friends have talked about doing "Ekphrasis" reports on works in museums. It seemed like a rather esoteric vocabulary choice, so I was interested to read about someone else who knew what an ekphrasis was. : )

I'm not sure that I agree that poetry is more powerful than art... as a lover of both, I'd definitely have a hard time choosing! But I really like your concept of using letting your description of the object go beyond conventional bounds. The idea of letting that literary description take on a life of its own is great. Plus, ultimately, that's what visual art does anyway, right? It exists as more than its objective reality - it BECOMES something new and more intimate to each viewer, based on the complex context of their own individual experience. Nicely done.

Ray Smallshaw ( F P C D ) at 2009-05-13

I have never entered this area of the site before and curiosity got the better of me, if I never enter it again the five to ten minutes on reading and re-reading your article T. was worth every minute. As for poetry's many wonderful words Ekphrasis is a favourite and as you said in your article we may not have a degree in English Lit or be as well read as some of our peers, yet unknowingly(they don't know the technical name for it) a lot of people use this technique in their poetry. So I don't think tha a "Ekphrasis" piece of poetry is as sibyllene writes, "beyond conventional bounds".
Yet again impressed with the poetic depth of your knowledge T. Ray S