ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the creation of a poem in triptych form and relates it to other arts, developing the argument as to how the new poetics affects poetry and the writing process. In sense, the whole poem about a sudden storm is a metaphor. The poem fell into triptych form from the start. It also marks a development in time from the first part to the third. The three-section form of the poem is akin to the triptychs of medieval iconography as well as the work of some contemporary artists in poetry and painting. What is demonstrated in the earlier example of a triptych-like poem can be scaled to other forms of multi-panelled works, from diptychs to many-panelled forms. In the old poetics, writing poems was seen as part of a hallowed tradition of 'creative writing' that also included the writing of fiction and plays.
