The Visual Versus the Verbal in Poetry

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The connection between the pen and the brush or between word and colour is historical and not virginal at all. The appearance of this tie emerges in Roman times to reappear in Renaissance, so the relation between painting and poetry accompanies their existence to such extent they are regarded as two faces for a sole coin. Thus, many critics who are aware of the effect of the two arts considered '' poems as speaking picture and painting as a silent poetry.'' (Diyanni 625)The mutual reception between poetry and painting brings wonderful golden fruits. The prize fruit of such connection is the mutual influence between the two, particularly when some paintings arouse the artist appetite of some poets so as to immortalize the theme of the paintings in words. Not only this some poems inspire the brushes of painters with masterpieces in paintings.