Katie Ford's Colosseum

Stanza structure

The poem Katie Ford's Colosseum is the artistic expression of an idea, the linguistic context which reaches the highest values ??of language as signifier and signified, with a full pace, with essential structural unit. The visceral work by Katie Ford, whose poems possess the veiled brilliance of stained glass windows seen at night, Colosseum confronts ruin in the ancient world and in the living moment, from historical accounts and from firsthand experience. Displaced from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Katie Ford returns this powerful report attesting to the storm's ferocity and its aftershock. Ford examines other catastrophes, those biblical, obscured by time, and those that play out daily, irrefutably, in the media. Colosseum is an essential, moving book in its insistence that our fates are intertwined and that devastation does not discriminate. (Hobbes, 2008)

Colosseum is a book of insights and fiercely polychrome kinetic observation. In his Vatic balance of the event and then the usual limits appear to fall far involving interior and exterior, public and private, the intimacies of the fence and sight distance are interwoven with clearness the right balance and surprising. Poem, Colosseum is the verse play, although it is written in prose, to the sphere of poetry. Traditionally, this name is left to those that are of some length that include epic, dramatic. The prose poem is a literary sub-genre they belong to prose, usually short and of fine composition, expressing sentiments similar to those of a lyric. The poem consists of stanzas. A single stanza poem can be considered if you enclose a complete thought.

The poems, Colosseum according to the verses they contain, are classified as the Mono-estroficos poems which are formed by a single stanza. The Polies-troficos poems are those which contain more than one stanza. The stanzas of the poems polies-troficos must keep each harmonic similarity, even ...