We've spent quite a bit of time this week "listening" to poetry by trying to discern the way that poets write so that we can hear the rhythm of their poems. In this way reading and writing poetry is linked to performance. When we as readers try to find the voice in the poem, we are in a sense performing. When we read a poem we are in a sense present at a performance.
Read each of the poems below first then listen to the performances of the poems linked below. Choose one of the poems and describe how the poem sounds. How does listening to the poem contribute to or change the way that you understand it.
Allen Ginsberg "America" p. 471
Rita Dove "Parsley" p. 303
William Wordsworth "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" p. 257
Amiri Baraka and the Roots "Something in the Way of Things(In Town)" (Poem is Here)
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