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Take a look at something familiar and make it new.
Ostraenie, is the term for defamiliarization introduced by Russian writer and critic Victor Shklovsky, which means to see in strangeness.
To see in strangeness is to participate in an illusion that is more real than real.
Defamiliarization or ostranenie is the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way so they could gain new perspectives and see the world differently.
The concept has influenced 20th-century art and theory, ranging over movements including Dada, postmodernism, epic theatre, science fiction, and philosophy; additionally, it is used as a tactic by recent movements such as culture jamming.
Poetic language is fundamentally different than the language that we use everyday because it is more difficult to understand. Poetic speech is formed speech. Prose is ordinary speech - economical, easy, proper and the direct expression of a child.
“The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar’, to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged”