[lit-ideas] Re: his master (narrative's) voice
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:25:22 EDT
I don't know.....I have a cassette (obviously purchased a couple decades
ago) of Cummings reading his poetry. He's rather stilted and I found them
much
less pleasing to the ear than to the eye. Maybe it's just me.
Julie Krueger
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I strongly recommend listening to a poet read his or her
work. One gets a better sense of their breath-line and
emphasis, and it can open up new appreciation. Hearing a
poet's voice is also a form of biographical information.
In the case of Merwin, there's a Caedmon recording of him
reading early poems. The little poem below, in his reading,
completely springs to life:
Dusk in Winter
The sun sets in the cold without friends
Without reproaches after all it has done for us
It goes down believing in nothing
When it has gone I hear the stream running after it
It has brought its flute it is a long way
-W.S. Merwin, Dusk in Winter, 1952.
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