More Technotexts - Class Response

Today's poet almost certainly can't help but think about how their poem looks on a page. It's easy to change line breaks, stanza breaks, word spacing, line length and fonts with a word processing program. And it's interesting to see hos changing the line length or a stanza break can slightly alter the meaning of the text. But what happens when we take the words out of the poem and the letters out of the words and play with their relation to the page? What happens when the visual form of the poem is as important as the words that make it?
- from "Poems that Go"

I believe that when the artist thinks more about the visual more than the meaning of the words, shaped poetry is created. Perhaps the words do not flow as easily as a more often seen poem in stanza form, but the visual aspect of the poem adds so much to the meaning of the words that are being presented. In a previous class, we played around with taking the meaning of the word and showing its meaning by relating it to its presentation on the page. I believe that when a poem is put in a more visual form adds to the poem's meaning, but perhaps it takes away from the reader's interpretation.