103 Image Search Results for Poetry Characterized Differently by an Assortment of Commonly Associated Adjectives

Task: Search for the word "poetry" preceded by various adjectives that are often used in conjunction with it.

Technique: These images are obtained by saving the first image listed after having performed an image search for the word "poetry" preceded by an adjective. In every case, the words are paired together and placed between quotation marks. Example: "good poetry"

Duration: 8:15 pm – 9:22 pm

Date: May 18, 2010

Search Engine: Google Image Search

Browser: Safari 4.0.5

Result Organization System: Alphabetic

What this might be:

-A crude snapshot of the current visual vocabulary of poetry as a term or an idea.

-A comparative survey of the complexities created by the desire to or necessity of pairing words with images.

-A demonstration that sometimes reveals unexpected relationships between locution and context.

-A compromised investigation of the complications faced when typifying classifications of poetry with images.

-A partial insight into which attributes or classifications of poetry are identified by certain visual components of the work, such as a photo of the author, a photo of the cover of a book, a photo of a page of poetry, a poem represented in digital form, an advertisement for a reading, a photo of a reading or a seminar, a painting or other work of art associated with the time/ affiliation of the poetry, or a painting or other work of art intended to suggest some other visual association, to name a few.

-An example of how basic, familiar, and historical qualifiers become increasingly less effective as a result of overuse.

-A simple examination of how an image search can yield poor results by favoring image popularity and freshness over relevant association.

-An example of how some things not conventionally related to poetry are being described as or compared to poetry.

-An enactment of my complicity in the solidification of these image search results as associated with their corresponding word-combination queries.

"absurdist poetry"

"academic poetry"

"accessible poetry"

"amateur poetry"

"anthologized poetry"

"award-winning poetry"

"bad poetry"

"basic poetry"

"beat poetry"

"best poetry"

"best-selling poetry"

"boring poetry"

"challenging poetry"

"cheap poetry"

"classical poetry"

"classic poetry"

"conceptualist poetry"

"conceptual poetry"

"concrete poetry"

"confessionalist poetry"

"confessional poetry"

"contemporary poetry"

"cool poetry"

"creative poetry"

"dadaist poetry"

"easy poetry"

"ethnic poetry"

"expensive poetry"

"experimental poetry"

"fake poetry"

"famous poetry"

"favorite poetry"

"feminist poetry"

"flarf poetry"

"found poetry"

"future poetry"

"futurist poetry"

"good poetry"

"great poetry"

"gurlesque poetry"

"hypertextual poetry"

"imagist poetry"

"important poetry"

"infamous poetry"

"instructional poetry"

"language poetry"

"least favorite poetry"

"love poetry"

"major poetry"

"meaningful poetry"

"meaningless poetry"

"mfa poetry"

"modernist poetry"

"modern poetry"

"multicultural poetry"

"neoformalist poetry"

"new poetry"

"normal poetry"

"objectivist poetry"

"old poetry"

"oulipo poetry"

"philosophical poetry"

"poetry"

"political poetry"

"popular poetry"

"postcolonial poetry"

"powerful poetry"

"practical poetry"

"professional poetry"

"projectivist poetry"

"published poetry"

"quietist poetry"

"rare poetry"

"real poetry"

"recent poetry"

"religious poetry"

"renaissance poetry"

"romantic poetry"

"self-published poetry"

"serious poetry"

"silly poetry"

"slam poetry"

"small press poetry"

"spiritual poetry"

"stolen poetry"

"strange poetry"

"street poetry"

"student poetry"

"surrealist poetry"

"symbolist poetry"

"theoretical poetry"

"transcendental poetry"

"trendy poetry"

"true poetry"

"uncreative poetry"

"universal poetry"

"unpopular poetry"

"unpublished poetry"

"vispo poetry"

"visual poetry"

"weak poetry"

"workshop poetry"

"written poetry"