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Erasure poetry, or blackout poetry, is a form of found poetry or found object art created by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and framing the result on the page as a poem. [1] The results can be allowed to stand in situ or they can be arranged into lines and/or stanzas .
A piece of blackout poetry, created by blocking out words from a piece of newsprint. Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them (a literary equivalent of a collage [1]) by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning.
Example: My stick fingers click with a snicker And, chuckling, they knuckle the keys; Light-footed, my steel feelers flicker And pluck from these keys melodies. —“Player Piano,” John Updike. Euphony –A series of musically pleasant sounds that give the poem a melodious quality, conveying a sense of harmony to the reader.
Don Juan by Lord Byron (1824), an example of a "mock" epic in that it parodies the epic style of the author's predecessors [12] Camões by Almeida Garrett (1825), narrating the last years and deeds of Luís de Camões; Dona Branca by Almeida Garrett (1826), the fantastic tale of the forbidden love between Portuguese princess Branca and Moorish ...
Poetic contractions are contractions of words found in poetry but not commonly used in everyday modern English. Also known as elision or syncope, these contractions are usually used to lower the number of syllables in a particular word in order to adhere to the meter of a composition. [1]
"Not Waving but Drowning" is a poem by the British poet Stevie Smith.It was published in 1957, as part of a collection of the same title. [1] The most famous of Smith's poems, [2] it gives an account of a drowned man, whose distant movements in the water had been mistaken for waving. [3]
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. The poem consists of thirteen short, separate sections, each of which mentions blackbirds in some way. Although inspired by haiku, none of the sections meets the traditional definition of haiku.
The text of the poem is as in Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold, edited by Dwight Culler, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961; ISBN 0-395-05152-5 and Matthew Arnold's Poems ed. Kenneth Allott (pub. J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1965). The editors of this page have opted for the elided spellings on several words ("blanch'd," "furl'd ...