Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Maite Nicuesa, in Jun. 2015
The writing shows how the expressive capacity of people helps to express the creativity concrete.
One of the most visual ways of expressing a specific message is through a calligram that draws through the words a specific figure that is the one that plays a leading role in the text. It is a very innovative art form that offers a very careful aesthetic aspect for a poem.
What is the purpose of unifying image and text?
Expressing a message through visual poetry, that is, communicating the essence of the poetic self through the sense of sight. When the person carefully reads the message of the text and enjoys the image of the calligram, he realizes that there is a harmony between both planes, that is, what the text expresses and what the image represents is exactly what same.
Visual poetry
The origin of this visual poetry is avant-garde when at the beginning of the 20th century the innovation on the production artistic. It is a turning point with respect to traditional poetry. A turning point that brings a certain air pictorial to the poem.
While poetry is a genre that can be dense for some readers who feel little identified with this type of literature or they have difficulties to understand the message that the poet wants to express, on the contrary, the calligram is a very poetic form interesting that allows an easier pedagogical way to understand an idea since the image becomes a reinforcement of the message of the text.
Fun way to do poetry
This type of visual poems especially appeals to children and adolescents since they show a fun way of learn poetry. Currently, there are computer programs that allow you to make these calligrams using resources technological, however, in their origins, these poems were made by hand. They are very creative and ingenious poems loaded with beauty in which the image is appreciated first, compared to the text. Through Google you can find different models of calligrams that will help you appreciate this different poetry that reaches the mind and the heart of the reader.
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