Selected Poetry Terms

example, from, like, word, ”

By aks

Selected Poetry Terms Consider using these tools when writing your poem. Alliteration: the repetition of a sound at the beginning of two or more neighboring words Example: “I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet” (from “Acquainted with the Night”...

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I Love My Ennemies - Ekphrastic poem

don’t, enemies, i’m, like, love

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I LOVE MY ENEMIES I love my enemies, those I forgive;they are my friends.But at times, when fate lies like a stone,there is a dying in my soul,and I’m prepared to love even thoseno one should forgive,just because life is hard work.Any life. Any at all....

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The Philosopher's Conquest : painting and ekphrastic poem

another, conquest, philosopher’s, wait, with

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The Philosopher’s Conquest (On the painting The Philosopher’s Conquest, 1914 by Giorgio de Chirico) In this endless warWith artichokes for cannonballsAnd listless streetsLike bloodless arteries—We wait It is 1:28 pmInvasion imminentWe cower in the colonnadesBarely...

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Textes officiels sur l'épreuve de LELE

document, litteraire, pts, thematique, –

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Présentation des dossiers la semaine du 4 mars. Épreuve orale obligatoire de littérature étrangère en langue étrangère Durée de l'épreuve : 10 minutes maximum Cette évaluation s'effectue à la suite de l'épreuve obligatoire ou de l'épreuve de spécialité...

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War paintings and poetry

1918, 1944, nash, painting, paul

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Click on the links to access the following paintings : Paul Nash, Totes Meer, 1941 Paul Nash, We are making a new world, 1918 Evelyn Dunbar, The Queue at the Fish Shop, 1944 CRW Nevinson, Taube, 1916 Charles Ernest Butler, Blood and Iron, 1916 Other :...

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Art Project Links

By aks

- painting analysis : David Hockney - a brief history of landscape painting - vocabulary specific to art - paintings and I-Pad art by David Hockney - Videos about artist David Hockney - digital art : art or not art? - I-Pad art show mini documentary

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Painting analysis - David Hockney

field, line, painting, this, with

By aks

This is an I-Pad print by David Hockney which was exhibited at his « A Bigger Picture » exhibition in London. It seems to be composed of several prints assembled together in a composition. This brick technique is often used by David Hockney to form huge...

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A brief history of landscape painting

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A brief history of landscape painting Master of Frankfurt Lamentation over Christ, late 15th early 16th Century 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries The depiction of landscape in art has its roots in Greek and Roman times, with murals of landscapes painted on...

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Vocabulary specific to art

are, art, color, painting, that

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Abstract: art that looks as if it contains little or no recognizable or realistic forms from the physical world. Focus is on formal elements such as colors, lines, or shapes. Artists often "abstract" objects by changing, simplifying, or exaggerating what...

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a few paintings and I-Pad prints by David Hockney

2011, canvases, oil, pad, print

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Garrowhill, oil on canvas, 98 Snail's Space, 2003 oil on two canvases, acrylic on canvas-covered masonite, wood dowels overall: 84 x 260 x 135 in. (213.4 x 660.4 x 342.9 cm) Snail's Space, 2003 (detail) Winter Timber, oil on 15 canvasses, 2009 Countryside,...

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