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Hence, the reader needs a new, easy, simple, and flexible form of poetry.
poetry. The present paper aims at highlighting one of the most important
sonnet, epic, Haikai, ode, etc (Riccio 38). Visual poetry does not adopt
any of these forms. The visual poet has the freedom to formulate his
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looking and restrained like all other fields of art. Thus, there
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shapeless, and lacking order (par. 1). Comparing the genre to other forms
destroys all the traditional forms of poetry. However, the free verse is
considered as a middle case between the traditional poetry and the visual
poetry because it gives the poet the dare to challenge the traditional verse
shape of the poem as the rearrangement of the text in visual poem may
change the intended meaning of the poem. Although visual poetry has no
The visual poet uses many techniques to visualize his poem. These
various and interrelated techniques of visualizing the text are the main
factor which makes visual poetry formlessness poetry. The first technique
create a visual poem. This is called concrete poetry. The term concrete
poetry has many synonymous terms such as pattern poetry and shape
poetry. The visual poet tries to create a photo using words, just words,
without the use of any external factor. In other words, the poet uses only
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own camera and then he comments on this photo with a poem. This
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This technique or kind of visual called "Fluxes poetry." The fluxes poem
poem illustrates:
using visual effects within the poem. In other words, when the poet
somehow becomes a painter and, on the other hand, the painter usually
becomes the poet. However, some poets may lack the efficiency of being
a painter, or he is not able to paint what he imagines. Here, the poet needs
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Bernstein is a famous visual poet, his ability as a painter could not convey
Thus, he used the artistic contribution of his wife, the painter Suzan Bee
to design this book of poems, The Nude Formalism, which looks like
the British painter William Blake or the illustrations which were designed
There are also many new techniques of visual poetry which mainly
formlessness not only appears in visual poetry, in general, but also it may
appear in the different works of one poet. She used the simplest visual
devices in her poem Water Fall, as she only used the rearrangement of
the text to design her poem. While she used Minimalism's reducing
language in her poem, Forsythia. She also used the clear visual effect in
categorize any visual poet under any standard as the movement itself is a
appears in the odd and confusing the structure of the poem, but also it
literary work including form, structure, theme, and language (Gruft 35).
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to written artistic productions which do not have the traditional forms and
fiction, comic books, visual poetry, sound poetry and others (Chris 361).
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which makes the visual poem formlessness one as each poem has no
Key Words:
Works Cited:
www.xexoxial.org/pdf/veil.pdf
Bernstein, Charles, and Suzan Bee. The Nude Formalism. Los Angeles:
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-----. Horizons, The Poetics and Theory of the Intermedia. New York:
2014. Print.
http://www.ahdictionary.com/
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Riccio, Ottone, and Ellen Siegel. Unlocking the Poem. New York: I
Sanders, Patricia. Visual Poetry. New York: Lulu com, 2008. Print.
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