I agree with this, as it merely states the fact that the techniques of page poetry could be “suppressed” when sung, but does that matter overmuch, and as such, does it demonstrate that a poem is different form a song? I think not. It merely says that poems sound different when sung. It has no bearing on how the poem/song is semantically received.
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Jamie McKendrick wrote:
A useless reading of any poem could suppress pretty well all these things – rhythm, pauses, enjambment (anyway a subtle feature, however crucial to the poem’s being, when a poem is read aloud) but – a big but – a reasonably competent reading would keep them intact. However, and this is where the contrast matters, a sung version will have the utmost difficulty registering them.
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