Each value in such a poem expresses itself individually and, by higher or lower declamation, of letters, sounds, vowel-consonant agglomerations, each sound unit is given its value. In order to communicate this typographically, I chose letters of different sizes and of different densities, treating them as a form of musical score. Optophonetic and phonetic poetry represent the first step towards poetry that is perfectly non-objective and abstract. This is where I differ from Ball. The semantic revolution demonstrates that art can never be placed in the shopping bag of history.
Classification is worthless.
And the birth of pure phonism. Around the world, the sounds of music are recognised according to certain vibrations and wavelengths. Sounds are coloured by secondary vibrations and by various timbres that can be ringing or muffled, rounded or jarring, husky or shrill. They provide a framework for the overall mixture of colours. A purely phonetic poem not only relies on a series of contradictory vowel and consonant sounds, equivalent to a drumbeat, but also possesses phonemes that can be clear, shrill, sonorous or sighing.