THE 5 MOST OUTSTANDING POEMS OF CONCRETISM - LITERATURE - 2025

The poems of Concretism are based on the visual part and the spatial distribution of the content of the work in its physical space. This poetic genre is completely different from other genres such as lyrical, where the important thing about the work is the rhyme.

The genre is also known as concrete poetry. The scholars of the subject give Eugen Gomringer for its main exponent and even creator.

This type of poetry emerged in 1930 in Brazil. There great contributions were made for the consolidation of the genre with the Noigandres group.

Before being called concretism, there were innumerable exponents of this genre. The artistic expression was known as a calligram back then.

The 5 main poems of Concretism

one-

This poem appears in Alice in Wonderland.

This story refers to a mouse and that is why the image fits perfectly by looking like the long and twisted tail of that animal.

two-

“Who

Are you

Who is born

In the next room

So loud to my own

That I can hear the womb

Opening and the dark run

Over the ghost and the dropped son

Behind the wall thin as a wren's bone?

In the birth bloody room unknown

To the burn and turn of time

And the heart print of man

Bows no baptism

But dark alone

Blessing on

The wild

Child. "

By reading the poem from its original language (English) you can understand the relationship that exists in the combination of sounds and content.

These sounds can mean both in music and in the proper sense of words.

3- By Guillaume Apollinaire

This poet is able to express in words what the image of a person in a photograph meant to the author.

His words narrated his impression, rendering the outline of the image.

4- By Guillaume Apollinaire

In this poetic work the author represents in words the most emblematic symbol of France.

In his work he refers to past conflicts between his nation and some others. The translation of the text of the work expresses something like: "Greetings world from which I am the eloquent language that your mouth O Paris brings out and will always bring out the Germans."

5-

cabbage ocaramas

ocar snail

you love snail

ocaramas car

acol ocarama

s goose snail

caraco branches

l ocaramas ca

In this work you can see the combination of the words "love", "place" and "snail". When scrolling in repetition, these words create a visual effect.

Additionally, the word "snail" refers to the inner ear coil. The above is interpreted as a poem that must be seen, heard and felt by those who read it.

References

1. Antonio Piedra, PG (2005). Angel Crespo: with time, against time. Spain: Jorge Guillén Foundation.
2. Dunn, C. (2016). Counterculture: Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil. North Carolina. United States: UNC Press Books.
3. Funkhouser, C. (2012). New Directions in Digital Poetry. New York and London: Front Cover.
4. Muñoz, BO (12 of 11 of 2017). A skeptical look at concrete poetry. Eugen Gomringer: Publicist or Poet? Obtained from scielo.cl
5. Ray Siemens, SS (2013). A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. John Wiley & Sons.