12/2

Reading Craig Saper's ideas in Networked Art about the two different, somewhat contradictory types of poetry helped me to better understand what was happening during this time and how it was affecting how we view poetry and art today. The different ideas discussed, concrete semiotic poetry and parodic calligraphic poetry differ in the way they think poetry should be thought of and carried out. The concrete idea was the more traditional aspect whereas the calligraphic method dealt with more montage things, which is exactly what we have been discussing. I found that this relates to the articla about Happenings. What is art exactly? Art can be described many different ways and found in many different shapes and forms as we have been discovering throughout the semester. The book seemed to be suggesting that poetry doesn't have to hold a specific form to be classified as poetry. Many people would, in fact, find a picture/montage to be poetic. I think that is the meaning behind a great deal of modern art and poetry, that it is very different from the traditional methods.