 A subset of visual iconicity involves a spatial iconicity.For instance, in Cummings's grasshopper poem ("r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r") the word "arriving" begins on the far right of the poem with the "a", the "r" is near the middle of the poem, and the rest of the word is on the left of the poem.The reader must travel a great distance across the poem, therefore, in order to "arrive".