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Ut pictura poesis: The verbal-visual synthesis in William Blake's poetic worldview

Tetyana Kozlova, Olga Klymenko, Iryna Shyrokova

ACNS Conference Series: Social Sciences and Humanities, Volume 3 (2023): 2nd International Conference on New Trends in Linguistics, Literature and Language Education (3L-Edu 2022) 18 May 2022, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Article 03006

Published online: 30 May 2023

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach to William Blake’s self-illustrated poems and investigates the verbal-visual synthesis in his worldview manifestation. It is hypothesized that verbal and visual representations made a demand for each other as they reflected unified embodied conceptualizations. The purpose of this study was to examine how different modalities increased a variety of ways in which the poet could interpret his own experience and represent his vision of the Universe. The findings showed that hybrid representation of Blake’s poetic worldview resulted in the increased salience of relevant information, more varied imagery and its more elaborate encoding.

Keywords

William Blake, poetic worldview, multimodality, image

DOI

https://doi.org/10.55056/cs-ssh/3/03006

Cite this article

Kozlova, T., Klymenko, O. and Shyrokova, I., 2023. Ut pictura poesis: The verbal-visual synthesis in William Blake's poetic worldview. ACNS Conference Series: Social Sciences and Humanities,3, p.03006. Available from: https://doi.org/10.55056/cs-ssh/3/03006

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