Guillaume Apollinaire's poem, "It's Raining,"provides a strong connection between written words and imagery.  The words both speak of rainfall and are arranged to look like raindrops falling or rolling down a window.  It is a very different appraoch to the arrangement of a poem, to say the least.  Each letter positioned on top of each other makes it very difficult to read, though fun to look at.  Apollinaire focuses on sound in this poem--women's voices, auricular cities, ancient music--and reading the poem in its vertical arrangement where each letter seems to represent a raindrop, it is not difficult to imagine the sound of the rain the image creates.  I always think of rain with a sense of renewal.  Perhaps the rain is trying to wash away all of the damage and pain that came along with the war, preparing the world to start anew.