ut responds, instead, to certain words or shapes that appear on the page. A reader's response to the poetry is his cognitive approach to discerning the unfamiliar; he can respond to the poetry the way he responds to life's overwhelming demands. Thus, poetic interpretation reflects what he knows of the world from his experiences, biases, and memory. Anne Hyde Greet and S. I. Lockerbie describe stimulating demands of poetic ideograph, "To be able to mirror such a multiple form of consciousness the work of art had to abandon linear and discursive structures, in which events are arranged successively, in favor of what Apollinaire called simultaneity: a type of structure that would give the impression of a full and instant awareness within one moment of space-time."
The cubist aesthetic of the ideograph requires a great deal of introspection and self-examination. When one considers the demands that the poetic form places on a reader, he can appreciate why Calligrammes appealed to Poulenc. Apollinaire's poetry require
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