great, more noisy texts.
just to add, rosemary huisman in The Written Poem argues that poetry
written to be read, and not sounded, has only emerged in the last 50 to 100
years.
she argues that all the familiar devices of poetry, rhyme, rhythm, meter,
alliteration, assonance, line-breath, are all phonological devices and
written to be sounded.
cheers
komninos
At 11:02 PM 2/8/01 -0000, you wrote:
>thought you all might enjoy the following, in view of the (very
>interesting) discussion of silent reading
>
>I am currently marking the very admirable but sometimes puzzled attempts of
>seventeen year olds to make sense of W Owen's 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' in
>an exam. One of them wrote
>
>'It uses very hard words and is what I would call noisy writing'
>
>Liz
>
komninos's cyberpoetry site http://student.uq.edu.au/~s271502
cyberpoet@slv site http://www.experimedia.vic.gov.au/cyberpoet/
komninos zervos, tel. +61 7 5552 8872
lecturer in cyberStudies,
school of arts,
gold coast campus,
griffith university,
pmb 50, gold coast mail centre
queensland, 9726
australia.
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