Calligrammes

Calligrammes Poulenc's settings (1948) for voice and piano of seven poems from Calligrammes: Poèmes de la Paix et de la guerre (Calligrams: Poems of Peace and War, 1913 – 1916) by Apollinaire. The calligramme is a poetic form in which the words are arranged on the page in such a way as to suggest graphically an object in the poem. The calligrammes attempt to create visual / verbal simultaneism, or immediate intuitive understanding, as opposed to narration, or logical discourse. The poems were…