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A piece of blackout poetry, created by blocking out words from a piece of newsprint. Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them (a literary equivalent of a collage [1]) by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning.
Erasure poetry, or blackout poetry, is a form of found poetry or found object art created by erasing words from an existing text in prose or verse and framing the result on the page as a poem. [1] The results can be allowed to stand in situ or they can be arranged into lines and/or stanzas .
A clear example of this can be found in Walt Whitman's poems, where he repeats certain phrases and uses commas to create both a rhythm and structure. Pattern and discipline are to be found in good free verse: the internal pattern of sounds, the choice of exact words, and the effect of associations give free verse its beauty. [40]
The Found Poetry Review was a biannual American literary magazine dedicated exclusively to publishing erasure (artform), cut-up and other forms of found poetry. [1] The journal published seven volumes of found poetry from its inception in 2011, initially launching online [2] and migrating to print in mid-2012.
Micropoetry often shares the quality of found poetry [citation needed], where poetic style is discovered in text not intended to be poetic. A famous early example of this was Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin 's Twitter feed, which comedian Conan O'Brien and actor William Shatner spoofed as poetry.
A poem, most likely incomplete, that was found in Poe's desk at the offices of the Southern Literary Messenger [31] in 1908. The manuscript is believed to date back to 1836; only three lines are known.
It will be found highly graphic in its style of Composition." [15] Poe's poetry submission, "The Coliseum", was published a few days later, but did not win the prize. [16] The poetry winner turned out to be the editor of the Visiter, John H. Hewitt, using the pseudonym "Henry Wilton". Poe was outraged and suggested the contest was rigged.
Lines composed of the same number of syllables with division in different place are considered to be completely different metrical patterns. For example, Polish alexandrine (13) is almost always divided 7+6. It has been very common in Polish poetry for last five centuries. But the metre 13(8+5) occurs only rarely and 13(6+7) can be hardly found.