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A form of poetry that relies heavily on typographical elements and layout. It is similar to |
A form of poetry that relies heavily on typographical elements, design, and layout. It is similar in manner to onomatopoetics. In onomatopoetics the word said sounds like what it repsents: Moo, Whack, Bang, ''etc'' ''etc''. Where as with an ideogramme a word or group of words visually embody their content. |
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One of the first and most reconizable ideogrammes is Guillaume Apollinaire's Il Pleut [It's Raining]; written two years before his death in 1916. It was published in his book Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War. |
One of the first and most reconizable ideogrammes is Guillaume Apollinaire's Il Pleut [It's Raining]; written two years before his death in 1916. It was published in his book Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War. |
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In November of 1917 at Vieux Colombier he stated in his lecture "New Spirit and the Poets,"Typographical artifices worked out with great audacity have the advantage of bringing to life a visual lyricism which was almost unknown before our age." |
In November of 1917 at Vieux Colombier he stated in his lecture "New Spirit and the Poets,"Typographical artifices worked out with great audacity have the advantage of bringing to life a visual lyricism which was almost unknown before our age." |
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Often this form is grouped within the Futurist movement. |
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Revision as of 05:36, 23 April 2005
A form of poetry that relies heavily on typographical elements, design, and layout. It is similar in manner to onomatopoetics. In onomatopoetics the word said sounds like what it repsents: Moo, Whack, Bang, etc etc. Where as with an ideogramme a word or group of words visually embody their content.
One of the first and most reconizable ideogrammes is Guillaume Apollinaire's Il Pleut [It's Raining]; written two years before his death in 1916. It was published in his book Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War.
In November of 1917 at Vieux Colombier he stated in his lecture "New Spirit and the Poets,"Typographical artifices worked out with great audacity have the advantage of bringing to life a visual lyricism which was almost unknown before our age."
Often this form is grouped within the Futurist movement.