A number of months back I picked up a copy of
A Poet's Glossary by Edward Hirsch, which offers a comprehensive look at pretty much everything related to poetry (I highly recommend picking it up).
The title has got me thinking about schools and styles of poetry in a way I haven't before, and I thought that'd make for an interesting discussion point. I'll jump right in and provide a few leading questions:
- do any particular schools of poetry resonate with you?
- do you consider your poetry to belong to a specific school or style?
I would say that symbolism is the school that resonates with me the most. From Hirsch's title:
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They craved a poetry of suggestion rather than direct statement and treated everything in the external world as a condition of soul. They sought to repress or obfuscate one kind of reality, the quotidian world, in order to attain a more permanent reality, a world of ideal forms and essences. They believed that a magical suggestiveness could best be achieved by synaesthesia, fusing images and senses, and bringing poetry as close as possible to music.
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I'd never studied symbolism too closely, but the above feels like it aligns with what I'm trying to do for the most part.