Visual poetry is a style of poetry that incorporates graphic and visual design elements to help convey its meaning, combining visual art with written expression. It plays with form in ways that can range from altering the arrangement of words on the page to incorporating other media, and while some visual poems retain a narrative structure, others are more abstract, focusing on the composition of words and letters over linguistic meaning.
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Notable ExampleLe corps de ma brune (1925) by Joan Miró 1 Defining TraitVisual poems integrate images into the text of the poem, distinguishing them from concrete poems which use only letters and/or words to form a visual image 1 Sources
1. Visual poetry - Wikipedia
Differentiation from concrete poetry section, forerunners sentence
a new genealogy of forerunners to visual poetry emerges that includes Joan Miró's poem-painting Le corps de ma brune (1925)
Differentiation from concrete poetry section, Sackner's definition sentence
I define concrete poems as those in which only letters and/or words are utilized to form a visual image, whereas visual poems constitute those in which images are integrated into the text of the poem
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