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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.
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 ...
The poem has inspired a number of musicians, including the American contemporary music ensemble Eighth Blackbird which derived their name from the poem's eighth stanza which makes references to "noble accents/And lucid, inescapable rhythms", and inspired several specific compositions as well:
The Martian poets were English poets of the 1970s and early 1980s, including Craig Raine and Christopher Reid. Through the heavy use of curious, exotic, and humorous metaphors, Martian poetry aimed to break the grip of "the familiar" in English poetry, by describing ordinary things as if through the eyes of a Martian.
The favoured tail rhyme stanza forms, too, also shortened, with fewer examples of the twelve- and sixteen-line tail rhyme stanzas that had proved successful in Middle English. [16] From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, the most popular tail rhyme stanza was AABCCB, with the main lines in tetrameter and the B-lines in either trimeter or ...
"Old Ironsides" is a poem written by American writer Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on September 16, 1830, as a tribute to the 18th-century USS Constitution. The poem was one reason that the frigate was saved from being decommissioned, and it is now the oldest commissioned ship in the world that is still afloat.
"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]