Sunday, May 07, 2006
Listen an experiential happening
Poetry like music, appeals to the ear, an effect known as euphony. Poetry's proper
culmination is to be read aloud by someone's voice, becomes the proper medium for the
poem. Every speaker intuitively is the 'voice' of the poem by intonation, the matter of
sound making sense, controlled through pitch and stress poetry aloud makes clear the
"pause" as an element of poetry.Each reading aloud is a unique one off ,never to be
repeated experience, an AS IS moment.
The true way of communicating verse , is as recitation for poetry as an art form relays
speech to ear thus becoing an 'as'as is' moment or an arrested moment unique to the
mood of both reciter/heard similar to sensations of these visiting an art gallery.
Some clips to try out the idea...
Even better to hear the poet's recitation of the poem as here with Samuel Beckett 'addenda 23'
Labels: apex of poetic art, poetry aloud, recitation
