logopoeia
logopoeia noun: one of Ezra Pound's three kinds of poetry, consisting of the use of words for more than their denotation, taking advantage of the context associated with a word.
Noun
logopoeia (uncountable)
- One of Ezra Pound's three kinds of poetry, consisting of the use of words for more than their denotation, taking advantage of the context associated with a word.
- Unless I am right in discovering logopoeia in Propertius (which means unless the academic teaching of Latin displays crass insensitivity as it probably does), we must almost say that Laforgue invented logopoeia, observing that there had been a very limited range of logopoeia in all satire, and that...1931, Ezra Pound, How to Read
- In more traditional aesthetic terms one could say that logopoeia is writing which activates the higher faculties of cognition rather than relying on sense experience. Whereas most poetry avails somehow of the plastic arts to enhance or "charge" language with meaning, logopoeia dances intellectually...2002, Lucia Boldrini, Medieval Joyce, →ISBN, page 69
Forms of logopoeia
| alternative form | logopeia |
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Origin of logopoeia
Coined by Ezra Pound from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “speech, discourse, story, study, word, reason”) and Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis, “poetry”) in a 1918 review of the Others poetry anthology.
Questions about logopoeia
- What does logopoeia mean?
- Logopoeia means one of Ezra Pound's three kinds of poetry, consisting of the use of words for more than their denotation, taking advantage of the context associated with a word.
- What part of speech is logopoeia?
- Logopoeia is a noun.
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