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Visual poetry movement

Movement
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

An avant-garde poetic tradition emphasizing visual form over verbal content

Detailed Definition
The Visual poetry movement is an avant-garde tradition emphasizing the materiality of language and the visual layout of text as central to poetic meaning; emerging in the 20th century, it includes concrete poetry, pattern poetry, and typographic experiments that treat the page as a visual field.
Example
Example in poetry:
The 1950s–60s movement including Apollinaire’s calligrammes, Gomringer’s concrete poetry, and the Brazilian Noigandres group emphasized visual poetry movement; British poets like Ian Hamilton Finlay advanced visual poetry movement; American concrete poets like Emmett Williams contributed to visual poetry movement; The movement treats the page as canvas, not just text.
Additional Notes
Visual poetry movement: A mid-20th-century movement where poets prioritized typography, layout, and visual design.
Also Known As
Visualist movement Concrete poetry Image-text movement Concrete Poetry (Global)
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