Watten 3: "The philologist Alexander Potebnya made a distinction between poetic language and practical language, arguing that poetic language has its own laws and should be studied as such."
also: "He also evolved a theory of poetic language that was important to the Symbolists. The basis of this theory was that poetry by means of metaphor condenses the forms of the world into images. So the poetry is basically thinking in images. One gets to the world through the image[.]"
> from Barrett Watten's Total Syntax (1984)
> tagged with #poetry_craft_techniques, #metaphor, #poetics, #language, #image
> created December 2, 2024 at 10:30:48 AM
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