| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 英國語文學系 === 85 === In this thesis I am to proffer an aesthetic knowledge of visual poetry by illustrating Renaissance pattern poems and cummings'' visual poems, through which to rectify the conventional view of visual poetry as insignificant or "aesthetically irrelevant."
My thesis is composed of five parts. In Inthoduction I outline the stakes of visual poetry, present its brief history, and bring forth three aesthetic issues abstracted from Renaissance pattern poems and cummings'' visual poems. These three issues occupy respeictively one chapter of my thesis. The first issue is the mimetic relation of visual poetry to nature. In their visual shapes which are the faithful representation of natural objects, I find an epistemological difference between Renaissance pattern poems and cummings'' visual poems. The second issue is concerned with the interaction between poetry and painting. Now that visual poetry is hightly mimetic, its linkage with painting (or visual arts) is all the more intimate. I concentrate upon, in consequence, how Renaissance pattern poems and cummings'' visual poems cross respectively the border G.E. Lessing builds between poetry, the temporal art, and painting, the spatial art. The former two issues focus on the writing mode of visual poetry;then, the third one attends to how this writing--which is called by John Hollander as "aberrant"--poses a challenge to the reader''s conventional response to poetry. And there are two contrasts in this discussion:one is the distinction between the reading of conventional poetry and that of visual poetry; the other the distinction between the reading of Renaissance pattern poems and that of cummings'' visual poems. The process from the first to the third issue is, we can find, an interconnection between from and content. Such a development brings out what I asserts in Conclusion:in order to prevent visual poetry from being nothing but a world play--i.e., to be not only visual poetry but visual poetry--visual poets have to secure the compatibility between its form and content.
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