Blackout poetry is an inviting way for students to experiment with poetry. It’s a way to eliminate the stress of writer’s block because when it’s time to “take out your notebook and a pen,” the words are already there—all students have to do is find them! Keep reading for ste...
Blackout poetry is also known as redacted poetry and erasure poetry. It is also regarded as a type of “found poetry.”
Similar to cut-up poetry, a blackout poem begins with an existing text, usually a newspaper. Using a heavy black marker, the writer blots out most of the page. The remaining words are not moved or rearranged. Fixed in place, they float in a sea of darkness. The contrast of black and...
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2. Elements of Poetry: Form “Form” refers to the structure of the poem. Is the poem asonnet, a villanelle, a free verse piece, a slam poem, a contrapuntal, aghazal, ablackout poem, or something new and experimental? Form also refers to the line breaks and stanza breaks in a poem...
aThe initial efforts of the Chinese state were therefore pre-emptive in natureand seemed to have misjudged the power and potential of the Internet to defy a total blackout. The Chinese leaders had probably not realised yet, as had the Prime Minister of Malaysia at the time, that: ‘Just ab...