I believe a poet choose to employ an open form such as visual poetry because of its unique ability of resemblance, rather in textual form or visual form. Also, it takes a very imaginative poet to create visual poetry. Visual poetry is like artistic development, helping a poet become better with poetry as well as helping others do the same. After reading “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes, I notice how the poetry form resembled what was depicted in the poem. The teacher tells a student to write about something deep, meanwhile; the student visualized his or herself in which became the “page for English B”. (933) More so, the poem’s sentence structure and narrative form resemble in the form of an essay. Poetry may seem to be all about short
