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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.
"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]
To encrypt a message, the agent would select words from the poem as the key. Every poem code message commenced with an indicator group of five letters, whose position in the alphabet indicated which five words of an agent's poem would be used to encrypt the message. For instance, suppose the poem is the first stanza of Jabberwocky:
To be a 'school' a group of poets must share a common style or a common ethos. A commonality of form is not in itself sufficient to define a school; for example, Edward Lear, George du Maurier and Ogden Nash do not form a school simply because they all wrote limericks. There are many different 'schools' of poetry.
Johnson recognizes 1775 poems, and Franklin 1789; however each, in a handful of cases, categorizes as multiple poems lines which the other categorizes as a single poem. This mutual splitting results in a table of 1799 rows. Columns. First Line: Most of the first lines link to the poem's text (usually its first publication) at Wikisource.
Poems of the Imagination (1815–1843); Miscellaneous Poems (1845–) 1798 Her eyes are Wild 1798 Former title: Bore the title of "The Mad Mother" from 1798–1805 "Her eyes are wild, her head is bare," Poems founded on the Affections (1815–20); Poems of the Imagination (1827–32); Poems founded on the Affections (1836–) 1798 Simon Lee 1798
"Dover Beach" is a lyric poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold. [1] It was first published in 1867 in the collection New Poems; however, surviving notes indicate its composition may have begun as early as 1849.