Introduction

by EVA-MARIA HOGREFE

Image, Sound, and Voice – these are the three techniques of the craft of poetry!

Image: Sight -- “Image is the heart and soul of poetry.  As in a picture, so in poems.” –Horace, Epistle III--

We are not a poet without imagery--

Look for imagery in:

Psalms 8, 22, 23, 42, 51, 91, 100, 121, 137, 139,148-150, 

and so on.

Sound: Rhythm -- Feeling and rhythm are related.

“Rhythm is basic in poetry and music mutually … music is pure rhythm, rhythm and nothing else, for the variation of pitch is the variation in rhythms of the individual notes, and harmony the blending of these varied rhythms.” --Ezra Pound (1885-1972) --

Rhyme another aspect of Sound …

Voice: Persona -- can be seen as the poet’s signature on his poems – his own unmistakable way of saying something.  This craft of voice is a combination of diction, syntax, and persona, forming the total tonality of a poem.