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Archetypes Of Jungian Psychology To Enliven Your Poetry
“Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial word.” Gerhard Hauptmann
Archetypes are defined as the model from which things are copied, or based.
Psychologist Carl Jung proposed that creative art can be an expression of feelings. Through his studies and observations, he recognized that art, expressed in the form of poetry can and also help repair, restore and heal a person.
Using poetry as a way to express yourself you can channel that energy within you and translate that energy into a work of art. Ridding yourself of that energy is healthy. It becomes healing from within.
An author when working his art has a clear goal to achieve. Express. The work of art then becomes an impression of your feelings. The interpretation is that of the observer.
In a work of art the artists feelings become embodied. You incarnate the paper or canvas with a reflection of you. As such your art, or poetry, becomes a subject open to interpretation. The poetry becomes a reflection of the poets soul. Your soul. Something usually well defined within your feelings that must be converted into a wordless visual expression for the world to see, admire and ultimately interpret. The interpretation will not be always completely accurate. The observer inevitably will use his own bias and feelings.
Use poetry as a canvas to share an image of the way you feel. Use it to project your individual psyches.
Think of a feeling, such as hope. Express this feeling of hope in rhyming, written words and you will develop and create a poem about hope. Those listening, or reading, your poem can then translate that poem, expression of your felling, into a reading of your inner soul. The way they see it.
Feel free to search within yourself touch your feelings, let it go and convert that energy into poetic prose.
Peace!