#ekphrasis
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #ekphrasis from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-27 11:04 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
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Live pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-27 11:04 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~9940 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 16:00
Languages: English (35) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.2
Top of the latest posts
The Ekphrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction by Janée J. Baugher, 2020 A common definition of ekphrasis is descriptive writing influenced by the visual arts. Beyond the written word, however, responding to a
"Il a suffi d’une photo prise depuis le Corridoio Vasariano, une tour crénelée derrière une vitre, pour qu’une description ordinaire commence à se défaire d’elle-même." https://vitanova.ledibbouk.net/spip.php?article44 #écrire #ekphrasis
W3 Prompt #222: Wea’ve Written Weekly Intro Dear friends, Welcome to our W3 Poetry Prompt, which goes live on Wednesdays at The Skeptic’s Kaddish. You may click here for a fuller explanation of W3; but here’s the ‘tldr’ version: Part I The
What “ekphrasis” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaekphrasis/ˈɛkfɹəsɪs/
- nounA clear, intense, self-contained argument or verbal description of an object, especially of an artwork.
Ekphrasis is a rhetorical device defined as the written description of a work of art, either real or imagined. Since classical antiquity, ekphrasis has been used as a technique in poetry, but is frequently employed in other genres of literature as well. In addition to its descriptive qualities, in classical antiquity, ekphrasis was also used to evoke strong emotional responses in the reader, by using enargeia, or vivid language, and evidentia, or evidence, to prompt images in the reader's mind's
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