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arrangement of letters of alphabets from a to z in his titled poem 'Suicide' in 1926. Similarly, Kurt Schwitters in his poem adopted the reverse alphabetical order of letters 'z comprehension, creativity and the capacity of analyzing. Pictures in a poetry book through illustrations depict the cultural in the lives of characters, increase the learning of
to a'. cultural diversity, and teach the readers life lesson.
Visual Poetry has been identified by the Literary theorists as a development of Concrete Poetry. It has non-representational language and visual elements. In 1965, Dick WHY ARE PICTURES IN POETRY THE NECESSITY?
Higgins described the Concrete poetry extended further into the ambiguous sphere as 'intermedia' and creation divorced from the representational language or To an ordinary mind, poetry is nothing more than a source of aesthetic pleasure, but ''Poetry is something very elusive, profound and indefinable…neither the intelligence,
deployment of typography. Marvin A Sackner in his introduction to Collection of Visual Poetry said, ''I define concrete poems as those in which letters and/ or words are nor the imagination nor the ear is the true recipient of poetic delight. They are only instrument And channels…poetry is a great formative and illuminative” (Singh, Dr. R.N.,
utilized to form a visual image, whereas visual poems constitute those in which images are integrated into the text of poems” (Wikipedia). In Visual Poetry, Images are 3). The pure spiritual joys the words involve give the poetry indefinable power. There is the great difference between ordinary speech and the speech of poetry. In ordinary
integrated into the text of the poems. It is meant to be seen and presupposes a viewer as well as a reader. Pictorial Poetry is a kind of Technical Communication which speech, language has very limited practical utility of the communication, but in poetic speech, words get the power of expression, sensation, mental expression, and
provides information to the people but also to entertain them. The electronic means of communication like the radio, television and the films have entertainment value. intellectual meaning. There is a spiritual excitement the soul feels. The power of words poetry involves cannot be understood by the general reader. For a general reader,
Pictorial Poetry derived from Pictorial Adv. from Latin Pictorious meaning 'painter'. Drawing and pictures are more ornaments in scientific discourse. Pictorial devices are text without image gives difficulty to get the real sense it contains. But if the text of poetry involves image or picture, it can be understood by a common reader like a college
indispensable tools for explaining a theory, for telling a story. Pictorial Poetry is an art that gives the information on a certain problem not only with poetic structure but also or school student. To serve this purpose and to spread the message to a great number, the text of poetry needs image and the text having the picture concerned to it is
with the image. Pictorial Poetry is made up of two words: Pictorial and Poetry. The pictorial is an adjective denotes an image or picture, and Poetry is a definite pattern or called Pictorial Poetry. Poetry is like all other arts, a mystery. “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotions recollected in
structure of lines. Hence, Pictorial poetry is an Endocentric Compounding in which AB is not A but B. A is the modifier and B is the head. In Pictorial Poetry, Poetry is the tranquility; the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction; the tranquility disappears and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of
head and Pictorial is Modifier. To define in the term of linguistic, Pictorial Poetry is the Poetry that runs its text with images or pictures concerned to the text. The compound contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind” (Wordsworth Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, 17). Poetry is the work of literature that
word, Pictorial Poetry is a tool that discusses a problem not only with poetic lines but also involving the picture too. The picture draws the attention of the readers to know focuses on the expression of feelings or ideas, involves the use of metaphors with rhythm and styles. Poetry increases a different kind of thinking and growth. It is totally
what it depicts. Within the same time, the poet tends to read the poetic lines attentively. The picture helps the reader as a guide to understanding the poetic lines well. In different from the style and language of prose. It has a compact structure that is difficult to be understood by a common level of students without the use of images with the
other worlds, Pictorial Poetry is a device that helps the readers to understand the deep aspects of the problem well by laying he emphasizes on the picture attached to it. text. “…poetry is not introduced in life; it is life itself, in its myriad of colours, perspectives, and possibilities” (Chadha, 180).
WHY IMAGE OR PICTURE WITH THE TEXT? There is a great difference between the teaching of prose and Poetry. Teaching poetry needs forming some images before the students where they are verbal in the

In the world of today, visual images are becoming more and more important as they carry more information within the combination of words. With the help of images, sense. If the text of poetry itself involves image with the text, it becomes easy for teachers to make the students understand well. Hence Pictures with the text of Poetry
readers drive the literary meaning from the text, develop the understanding of the text. They get the ability to decode, interpret, evaluate, challenge, question, and create. help not only the students but also to the teachers too. In the words of Murray, “We don't understand a great poem till we have felt it through, and as far as possible,
Pictures give the readers a powerful message the text contains. Images help to know socio-cultural surroundings, the critical skill of exploration, critique, reflection, recreated in ourselves the emotions which it originally carried” (Chadha, 180).
summarizing, and the ways of presentation. In a nutshell, it can be said that Pictorial Poetry is the best media for the communication and instruct all kind of readers. The Pictures with the text help the readers to
It is true saying that 'what you hear and read, you can forget, but what you see, you remember'. That is why an advertisement contains an image bigger in size and text understand the text well within a short period of time. The message the text contains retains in the memory of the students for a long time. It is the images with the text in
smaller in size. A single picture contains a lot of meanings that can't be described in a single page. It gives so many messages: values and other information too. While Poetry that make the text enjoyable and grasp the meaning the text contains.
going along a highway, you see a number of hoardings, not texts. Every picture says itself much more. To stay the reading material in the memory for a long time, children WORK CITED
need images or pictures with texts. Appropriate meaning to express comes with the image the text contains. It is an image that makes the fundamental relationship
1. Wordsworth Preface to the Lyrical Ballads. Dr. Raghukul Tilak. New Delhi: Rama Brothers, 1982. Print.
between the readers and texts. It gives the authenticity of the text. Through the pictures with the texts, artistic talent of the readers develops. An image makes a text more
2. Singh, Dr. R.N. Standard English Language. Agra: Sanjay Publication, 2014. Print.
enjoyable to understand. Children are the future of tomorrow Nation. They need to develop creativity, the power of imagination and soft skills. They need to develop a
different kind of thinking and growth to strengthen their mind. A pictorial Book combines Visual and Verbal narratives in a book format and aims at shaping a creative mind. 3. Complexion Based Discrimination. Dr. Deen Dayal (Ed.). Chennai: Notion Press, 2018. Print.
Images in the Picture book contain a Vango of media like oil paints, acrylics, watercolour, pencil shades and other uses. “A real life is a box of crayons. It demands upon 4. https://en.mwikipedia.org. Visual Poetry-Wikipedia
you what shape you give and how you feel like…Different colours affect different persons differently. It is the mindset and pre-existed thinking that makes them do so”
5. Chadha, Dr. S.C. Teaching of English. Meerut: Loyal Book Depot, 2002. Print
(Complexion Based Discrimination, 313). Children love multicolour's that make them attract towards the things. If the poems in the book are with pictures of multicolours,
they attract the children to see the images and then the children want to read them. Want to read them. An image in a poem enhances child's interest, his power of

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