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CALLIGRAMMES

Laury Perombelon

Created on May 13, 2023

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what is a

CALLIGRAM

Text, often poetic, whose words are placed to represent an object which is the theme of the poem.

french calligrams

calligrams by guillaume apollinaire

The most famous calligrams were made by the great poet Guillaume Apollinaire. It's him who invented the name of this type of poem by mixing the words calligraphy and ideogram.

Are calligrams only french ?

Even if Apollinaire created the word, we can find different forms of calligrams in several parts of the world and even before his !

calligrammes arabes

chinese calligrams

My first calligram

your turn !

  • Pick one landscape. You can draw it OR use one of the printed ones.
  • On a blank piece of paper, write a draft of your poem.
  • Then, write the poem to form a drawing.
  • Have fun !