Hi Ernest,
surely you are a pseudonym for a Brit revisionist provocateur. Slyman
indeed, and wilfully. But not enough guile i fancy.
>The whole business of reading verses aloud implies largely binding and
>self-inflicted limitations. A spoken poem affords a singular interpretation
>to the poem, intrudes unfairly on the ear.
In what ways? Does a piece of music have only one interpretation? How is
hearing language different. Is 'music' not a language.
What doesn't intrude 'unfairly on the ear'? I sense a trojan cod
romanticism here.
>The performance defined by voice may earn the poet monies. But how does one
>go about reading a poem for an entire audience?
Exactly, you've just begun to make my point for me.
>The voice must decide for
>the ear the various possibilities of inflection, tone, syntax, and the whole
>jumbled lot of meanings which are entirely visual, not given to the ear. But
>the eye.
Is your body so appallingly departmentalised? So separated? How dutiffuly
out of the manual post-modern of you. How further locked into the exegeses
of 'the gaze'.
>The listener is one world, and the reader is another.
I ask again, what do you hear when your read?
>(How does one indicated the visual symbols of the printed verse. Those
>parenthesis or scattered spaces between the letters of words. Line breaks
>seem to go by the board. What is for the visual poem is not for the poem
>read aloud.)
Au contraire, foul blade. 'Tis worrying whom ye may have heard 'read'.
>The poem read aloud approaches the trick of the ventriloquist dummy, the
>talking horse. The actor and public relations spokesperson.
What of the mimetics of the eye, the billboard jargonist? Are you not the
actor of language in your 'reading'?
>Not to say the audience doesn't wish to hear the author's interpretation of
>a poem. But the silence of the visual poem has merits that far exceed the
>spoken verse.
And writing / poems that are not intended for the page? Ared we really
gpoing to hobble around in this binary of 'orality' and 'literacy' yet
again? Let alone the cultural hegemonies underpinning that.
>My fear is that poet when reading aloud risks comparison to a talking horse.
>And the rear end of one at that.
listen to yourself - ernestly! I ask you
love and love
cris
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