Analysis of The Two Views



A myopic view.
Telescopically seen.
Your lenses of me!


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 00101 11 11011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 54
Words 11
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 43
Words per stanza (avg) 9

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The Two Images: The writer, the singer, the great entertainer, the poet as dreamer, all as composers, are emotionally laden, subjectively immersed in themselves, subjectively, myopically involved with their own image of Self. Not so, the viewer, remotely apart, with rear view lenses, looking at a distance more panoramically, seeing the artist keenly and less subjectivity, perhaps more objectively, capturing on blank canvas a different image.

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Written on December 17, 2021

Submitted by karlcfolkes on December 17, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s “Dear Mili” Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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