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Concrete Poems combine words and shapes to create powerful auditory and visual image. This image should add life and interest to the idea the poem is about. Some Concrete Poems are shapes that are filled with words; others outline a shape or imitate a movement.
Concrete Poems are basic poems that take some sort of shape. There are only a few guidelines to follow when writing these poems.
- Choose a topic. It should be something that is visible, like a place, an object, or an animal.
Jot down any words or phrases that come to mind when you think of this topic.
- Outline the shape of the object with words, fill in the shape with words, or trace the movement of an object with words.
- Correct any punctuation or spelling errors.
CONCRETE POETRY is a certain poetry practice formulated in the 50's from Brazil and from Switzerland.
"Concrete poetry got its name at the beginning of the 1950s. It is a language art form that is closed, international, and non-mimetic, proceeding from the material qualities of language: from the verbal, sound, and visual materiality of words. The graphic forms of single letters, the white space of the book page, the constellation of letters vis-à-vis one another, the change of reading habits, the combinatory possibilities of letters and words on a surface, the ignoring of syntax and metaphor, the free play with language material that simultaneously goes against the literalness of language-this calls for a wholly new reception attitude on the reader's part. No customary left-right reading will work, no usual sentences, no given sequencing, not even words that had once been complete-the reader must himself become productive, discover constellations, determine double meanings of words, develop his own history with the language material being offered." - Klaus Peter Dencker from Concrete to Visual Poetry, With a Glance into the Electronic Future
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