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 Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:06 am
What would you consider the best poetry for reading out loud? There is some poetry written to be read that way, like Shakespeare. I also remember enjoying The Illiad much more when I head a dramatic reading.
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Posted: Thu May 22, 2008 11:38 am
I'm very fussy when it comes to hearing poetry read aloud. Perhaps it's because I read to myself so much when I was little, that I always imagined the beats more pronounced, yet no one seems to read them this way aloud.
(There is one teacher [whom I dislike entirely as an educator] who reads aloud quite well, though. Anything he reads seems to be perfectly orated.)
For me, because so much depends on the speaker and much less on the actual work, I'd say anything written by the speaker works. Although, even this isn't a sure way to hear a good reading; I have a record of T. S. Eliot reading his "Selected Poems," and I don't know if I've ever heard someone read poetry so badly.
(I <3 T. S. E., though. So no offense meant!)
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Romantic Conversationalist
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:59 am
I like poetry read aloud when it's read correctly. A few people that practise it can do it successfully, but the average individual does not have a proper flow of pauses and enunciations when perusing aloud, which ruins the work.
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Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:07 pm
I'm also very picky about who reads poetry.
They have to be the right voice, and more often than not, I enjoy men reading poetry, although I don't know why.
But you always have to take into consideration the poem itself too.
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:30 pm
This thread is ancient but I've just got to say that most modern poetry readings grate on me. All poets nowadays use the same cadence and tone when reading. That tone makes you sound unspeakably pretentious, like you are taking yourself too seriously. But it's so hard not to slip into, it's just an easy place to read from, protected somehow against the power of the words you have to read.
However, most poetry needs to be heard to be fully appreciated and some people can strike a nice balance between pompous-poet-voice and awkward-kid-mangling-Shakespeare. When I read poetry I like to read it aloud, even if it's just under my breath. Good poetry is a delight to for the tongue.
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