The above image is a piece of Erasure Poetry, a type of poetry that takes a paragraph or more of text and "erases," as the name suggests, parts of the text that the author does not want, in order to create a new idea. This particular poem reads: a busy scene / created / from the surrounding country. / the square, / a net, / carts / here and there, / A crowd / mingling with / merchandise, and the / merchant, with poultry, / sausages, and goats'-milk cheese / for sale / baskets, oranges, chestnuts, / fruits and nuts. / Here, too, / lounging citizens / gentleman / sauntering / as if caring for nothing, and having nothing to do / Yet a spark of interest / the eye / gave variety to the scene. The words that are "erased," so-to-speak, from the text appear to be faded out, as if this particular poem was made on the computer.
In looking for easy genres to do to finish this English project, I thought that the example that was given seemed simple enough for me to do, and still be able to sleep at night. I found it by searching for the blog "http://verywellthenicontradictmyself.blogspot.com/." I then took the top image from the blog, downloaded it, and then uploaded it to my own blog. The conventions of Erasure Poetry, aforementioned in the above paragraph, include the following: starting from a page of text, usually one or two paragraphs, and then "erasing," or ridding, the text of words that the author does not desire. This particular piece takes the unnecessary words and fades them out, where as the words the author wanted to stand out, are left alone.
The poem describes, as the text outright states, a "busy scene" with people "mingling with merchandise," which infers people shopping all throughout town. The audience targeted with the poem, would be anyone who enjoys erasure poetry, who can related to living in a busy city with many merchants, or anyone who has an interest in literature in general.
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