Architecture and poetry are connected in a variety of ways, many being systematic in contruction. Poetic devices - similie, personification, ode, sonnet, rhythm and epic - are also shown in architecture to help communicate.
Through poetic devices of Similie architecture can be seen. Similie is often a figure of speech to help compare two things that are completely unalike. Robert Burns' poem compares his love to a rose. A Red, Red Rose O my Luve's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June; O my Luve's like the melodie That's sweetly play'd in tune.
The Guggenheim Bilbao museum of contemporary art imitates the curves of the human form. Creating similie in architecture.
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The Cell Structure of this New York idea imitates human cell processes.
Simiarly Emily Dickinsons Poem 'The Railway Train' describes a mechanical creation in such a way that makes it seem alive. I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains, And, supercilious, peer In shanties, by the sides of roads; And then a quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then chase itself down hill
A rhythmic method could said to be seen in architecture. The Sinosteel International Plaza - MAD Architects - is the perfect example of architecture that uses rhythm as a main part of its form. Rhythm can be described in other ways as repetitiveness of system or housing a common theme or aesthetic.
Shel Silversteins' poem Where the Sidewalk Ends contains rhythm. There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind. Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
Odes in particular - with their irregular manner - can relate to abstract forms in architecture also. Sapphos' Ode to Aphrodite Aphrodite, subtle of soul and deathless, Daughter of God, weaver of wiles, I pray thee Neither with care, dread Mistress, nor with anguish, Slay thou my spirit! But in pity hasten, come now if ever From afar of old when my voice implored thee, Thou hast deigned to listen, leaving the golden House of thy father
Frank Gehry is an artist and architect, his work is an expression of several artistic elements. His art burs the line between sculpture and architecture. Many other artists work - art, architecture, sculpture, poetry - bur the line between art forms.
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