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Guillaume Apollinaire’s Trailblazing Caligrams, 1913

The form is part of the message in French writer Guillaume Apollinaire's "caligrams", in which the shape of the words on the page creates meaning.

by Paul Sorene

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Caligrames at PG:
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Transcription of the image: 006—Il pleut Il pleut des voix de femmes comme si elles étaient mortes même dans le souvenir c'est vous aussi qu'il pleur merveilleuses rencontres de ma vie ô gouttelettes et ces nuages cabrés se prennent à hennir tout comme un univers de villes auriculaires écoute s'il pleut tandis que le regret et le dédain pleurent une ancienne musique écoute tomber les liens qui te retiennent en haut et en bas https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55569/pg55569-images.html#a006 Description of the image: The title of the poem is in normal orientation at the top of the image. The poem itself is typed in lines at a slight angle to vertical - each letter of a word below the previous letter, and each line to the right of the previous line. The lines aren't precisely straight or parallel. The shape of the poem suggests rain. English translation: It rains women's voices as if they were dead even in memory it is you too that it cries wonderful encounters of my life oh droplets and these rearing clouds begin to neigh just like a universe of ear cities listen if it rains while regret and disdain cry an ancient music listen to the ties that bind you above and below falling

Guillaume Apollinaire's Trailblazing Caligrams, 1913 - Flashbak

The form is part of the message in Guillaume Apollinaire's "caligrams", in which the shape of the words on the page creates meaning.
Paul Sorene (Flashbak)
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A form which "Grasshopper" by ee cummings simultaneously lauds and lampoons.

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