Wednesday, April 3, 2019

All About Classic Poetry Readings

By Rebecca Perry


It is always a liberating experience to share your passions and interests with others. With your own coterie of like minded people, you will be able to put yourself according to perspective. Notwithstanding differences in experiences, opinions, and other trappings of individuality, there is a certain excitement to be had when you feel yourself in line with the feeling of others. Enough of this schmaltzy tosh and see about classic poetry readings Los Angeles.

Oral reading of poetry is an old, tried and tested enterprise. There are many poetry reading activities, mostly in bookstores and cafes. In relatively large amphitheaters, you may even be able to hear the writer or poet himself or herself discourse about his compositions. On a thoroughly discrete plane, there are also audiotapes and recordings by which you may hear oral interpretations of the works of classic poets.

Wherever you are coming from, literally and figuratively, there is a beautifully worded prose out there somewhere who skates along flowery language and spewing off thoughts and inner feelings as if they know you inside out. Poems are essentially literary pieces that hold up a mirror to you, and in the process, give you a free rein to reexamine yourself.

Anyway, this enterprise is something that is relative and thoroughly individual. We all have different montages that play in the mind when a certain poem is read aloud. We are all taking our own experiences and feelings to account. However, there are some that give out universal hooks that impinge on the feelings and experiences of millions, so much that they come to be recognized as Classics, in their own rights.

Poetry is something that skates over many disciplines. Through it, one can effectively read, understand, and make one want to write any text. Just by opening the floodgates of your thoughts through poetry, you are healthily plugging out the deluge of surging emotions.

With relative ease, you will just have to literally lean back and relax. No more extra straining with the auxiliary to dos. Comprehension is basically unfettered here. Skillful readers know all the nuts and bolts with poetry. They know when to emphasize, enunciate, linger, and stop for dramatic effect. Really, though, when a poem is read out loud, youll soon see yourself sharing a popular worldview on it.

Reading poetry activates involvement. To actuate this enterprise, you need both a speaker and a listener, who are, in effect, the performer and the audience. It creates a sort of connection that opens up avenues and channels of understanding. Whether or not its an original or classic piece, reciting it aloud makes a person its Voice, and he or she gets to own it, in the course of the reading.

And now, lets go on to the genre that everyone is sitting on the edge of their seats for. For this, well take as our example, First Love by John Clare. Really, though, whats not to love about this poem. It brings with the utmost eloquence and first rate expression of a lad who had just had his first experience of the sting of Cupids arrow. There is something quite endearing and, at the same time, pitiable about it. Its the type that really makes you feel all the feelings.

The so called poets voice is important here. Since considerable changes in intonation, pitch, stress, and some such can bring a whole new sensibility and meaning, or nonsensicality and meaninglessness. Therefore, it is as much a skill as anything else. One has to familiarize himself or herself with the poems elements, and at least glean a certain confidence that they have gleaned the correct and standard message of the poem.




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