[stylist] FW: Synesthesia in literature

[Jacqueline Williams]

I forgot to paste the  notes. Here goes.
Jackie
Synesthesia in literature: artistic and poetic devices which attempt to
express a linkage between the senses, to fuse imagery from one sense to
another, to describe one sensory experience in the terms usually considered
more appropriate for a different sense. It may suggest an underlying unity
of dissimilar experiences.
Emily Dickinson:
-and then
There interposed a fly,
With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, Between the light and me;
Unknown
"a deafening yellow"
Dylan Thomas
Edith Sitwell
a child
Leslie McGrath
Unknown
Seamus Heaney
Wallace Stevens
Margaret Atwood
I hear the bouncing hills
Grow larked and greener. . .
. . .and the dew larks sing Taller
"The morning light creaks down again. . ."
"Silver tastes like a mouthful of bees."
"I am waiting to breathe the light."
"velvet silence"
"My palate hung with starlight:"
"Yes: but the color of the heavy hemlocks Came striding."
"September. Wild aster. Fox grapes, tiny and bitter
the indigo taste of winter
already blooming inside them."
David Chorlton	"and she spins
a web of perfume around him."
"twisting from orange
to the shade of a man's thirst when he can no longer swallow."
"beginning in a canyon
dark with the scent of winter apples."
Unknown	"I could taste her sweet whispers."
Louis MacNeice	"The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold."
Rumi
"Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river,
those who don't drink dawn
like a cup of spring water
or take in sunset like supper. . . ."
A. E. Housman
A. "When the bells justle in the tower."


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Subject: [stylist] Synesthesia in literature

To all,

These are some notes about synesthesia in poetry particularly. I have no
idea about how this format will come through.

Hope it makes sense.

Jackie 

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