Poetry is the
organization of the poetic images around one one more theme as forming
completeness according to imagist socialist poetry. As it can be understood
from this description, the main unit of the poetry is poetic images, because
poetry is an autonomous metalanguage developing in natural language. That can
be occured by deformig the syntax consciously and reforming with autonomous
system by poetic images. Poetic images convert natural language, enlarge its
borders and provide new expression possibilities.
A single word of the
natural language has a fix, stereotyped reflection at every person who
percepts. So, a single word of the natural language does not have the striking
association property as a poetic image has.
Poetic images are
established by making anology between “at least” two or more words having
semantic distance and the main mission of the poetic images is providing a
striking expression possibilty for transmiting the meaning by association.
As
poetry is written by poetic images and a single word can not be a poetic image
and a poetic image is established with at least two words, the main unit of the
poetry is poetic image, not individual words. So, we can easily say that the
poetry is written by poetic images, not individual words. The words are like
protons, neutrons and electrons if we suppose that the poetic image is an atom.
The compenents of the atom can not be found individually in the nature, and
they can only have a functional existence by forming completeness to establish
the poetic image. In the same way, the words gain poetic functionallity in
poetry as being organized to establish the poetic image.
A poetic image is the
subjective reflection of the objective reality at the conscience of the poet
esthetically. This artistic reflection is not a one to one reflection as a
mirror reflection, but it is the externalising of the objective reality with
percepting it and then transforming to a new reality by the conscience of the
poet.
As the poetic image
is externalized by the poet, it is added to the objective reality, so poetry
and also all art works are esthetical intervention to the objective reality
with created new reality which can be called as artistic reality.
The externalized
poetic image reaches to the conscience of the reader as a part of the objective
reality and it is absorbed by the reader according to his/her conscience and
esthetical perception level. So, the poetry is reproduced at the conscience of
every reader with differences and this process creates awareness about theme of
the poem and refines the esthetical perception of the reader. Then, this poem
makes a contribution to the personal transformation of the reader and also to
the other readers like this. So, that poem makes a contribution to the
social transformation according to its power.
Poetry is an artistic
way to change the World step by step as making contribution to the objective
reality with artistic reality.
SERKAN ENGIN
JUNE 2014
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