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Meaning of caligrama



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

caligrama
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They are poetic visual images, in which a set of letters, words or phrases form a figure that represents the subject matter. It is a set of letters, words or phrases that writing or typing them try to form an image of what they define or represent. Image made with letters or words.

  



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It is a recognizable figure formed by the text of a poem, conveniently locating its words. It is considered a visual poetry, since the resulting drawing is associated with the theme of the work. The first calligrams appear in the French literary cubism of the early twentieth century, so in many countries they are still named in that language as calligramme, which actually comes from the Greek 954; 945; 955; 955; 959; 962; ( kallos "bello" ) 947; 961; 945; 956; 956; 945; ( gramma "letter" ) . See logogram .

  










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