Cavalry Crossing A Ford Analysis Essay

As time progresses, the works become more abstract in their formatting. Walt Whitman’s poem, being the oldest, has the most words and standard format for poetry. Zed Ander’s poem, being the most recent, has less words and an abstract view on poetry.
Walt Whitman’s “Cavalry Crossing a Ford” portrays a series of images and asks the reader to “behold” the scene as if the reader was in the poem. The most unique aspect of the poem relates to the perspective from which the scene is displayed. There is a type of panoramic quality of the images which alludes that the scene is from a distance.
E.E. Cummings’ poem’s structure combines minimalism and intricacy, and is meant to be seen, rather than to be heard. His use of typography greatly impacts the way the reader reads the poem. The poem employs literary devices such as pause and emphasis, which gives a greater significance to the individual letters and words. Most importantly, the reader’s thoughts are slowed throughout the duration of the poem. “Flowerishes” created by Kenneth Burke in 1952, is made up of words that are compiled together in an abnormal format. The words are free flowing, yet still contained by a border of words. Barbara Jane Reyes’ poem does not contain any complete sentences, but …show more content…
The lines of the poem flow back and forth across the page, this creates both a visual and verbal signification of the landscape visualized in the words of the poem. The major role of the visual text is that it represents the image it is trying to convey. In the minimalistic layout, the poem achieves what the words want to visualize. Zed Anderson’s “City Park: Debris,” is more visual than verbal. The images are overpowering the words in this poem, the images are what draws the reader into the poem. Images seem to be attacking the words. The word and the image here are not friendly neighbors, but instead the neighbors who rival against each other with mischievous