[lit-ideas] his master (narrative's) voice
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:04:08 -0400
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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