Movement Description:
Concrete poetry began sometime around the 1950's where just about anyone could hear poetry aloud. However, the effect on others would often subsequently wither away. Later, as the poetry style expanded into to other countries over the world, poets began to interpret many different meanings of this kind of poetry. Almost instantaneously, the perceptions of concrete poems transformed from shallow abstract words, into a more specified piece of poetry. Now, concrete poetry actually touched others, not only through words, but images and film as well.
Concrete poetry began sometime around the 1950's where just about anyone could hear poetry aloud. However, the effect on others would often subsequently wither away. Later, as the poetry style expanded into to other countries over the world, poets began to interpret many different meanings of this kind of poetry. Almost instantaneously, the perceptions of concrete poems transformed from shallow abstract words, into a more specified piece of poetry. Now, concrete poetry actually touched others, not only through words, but images and film as well.
Poem Analysis:
Theodore Deppe's poem 'Carlos' at first glance may seem like a simple reading passage; perhaps that's all it is. His poem discusses actually the poem of a fellow inmate named Carlos, who speaks about a passage left to the family by his father. In the passage, includes the counter-feit money which had been left to fit into a worn-out brief case. With a puzzled Carlos, not knowing what to do with the money, he contemplates for 2 weeks, before realizing there is nothing he can do with it. |
Figurative Language:
There were several figurative languages used in this poem. One of which happened to be a paradox, when the author says, " it lit up the night like the perfect crime." Also, the author decided to include the use of a hyperbole and even a few oxymorons are present as well; "...world of concrete floors and everlasting light:" The author combined both everlasting, which is a continuation, to concrete which is meant to be solid and direct. POEM LINK: http://poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/29516 |