Concrete poetry is a recent term for an ancient poetic type, called pattern poems, that experiment with the visual shape in which a text is presented on the page. Some Greek poet's. Beginning in the third century BC, shape a text in the in form of the object that the poem describes or suggests. In the renaissance and the seventeenth century, a number of poets composed such partened forms, in which the lines vary in length in such a way that their printed shape outlines the subject of the poem; familiar examples in English are George Herbert's "Easter Wings" and "The Altar."
Prominent later experiments with pictorial or suggestive typography include stephane Mallarme's Un coup de des and Guillaume Apollinaire's calligrammes in the latter publication, for example, Apollinaire printed the poem "Il pleut" so that the component letters trickle down the page.
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