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RECITATION the apex of our art

Posted by Brian Strand on 7/19/2025 1:55:59 PM

Poetry like music, appeals to the ear, an effect known as euphony. Poetry's highest  culmination is to be read aloud by someone's voice,  and thus becomes the the apex medium for the poetry.. Every speaker reading  intuitively  is the 'voice' of the poem by intonation, the matter of sound making sense, controlled through pitch and stress  .Poetry aloud  makes clear the "pause" as an element of the poem .Each reading aloud ,each time is a unique one off ,never to be repeated experience, an AS IS moment happening.

The truest  and original way of communicating verse , is, as a recitation . Poetry as an aural  art form relays  speech to ear thus becoing an 'an arrested moment 'happening  unique to the mood of both reciter/hearer, creating  similar sensations of those similarly experienced visually when visiting an art gallery


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Comment by Brian Strand on 7/28/2025 1:14:26 AM

Hear me recite here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HQIoeA2cMtM


Comment by Brian Strand on 7/20/2025 2:01:20 AM

A number of folk here over the years have commented to me their concern about their 'accent' in regards to recording their poetry & posting it here...so perhaps you could do a blog 'how to' text-to-voice. step-by-step?


Comment by Brian Strand on 7/20/2025 1:47:14 AM

Yes John 'text to voice' aids clarity & uniforrmity but perhaps inevitably misses the ' je ne sais quoi' factor of a recording by the poet as perhaps exampled here in one of my clips https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UGl9Qwu66ys


Comment by John Anderson on 7/19/2025 3:33:43 PM

I agree wholeheartedly and most of my poems are voiced or sung as a song set to music. I use 'text to voice' and 'text to music' tools which do a better job than recording my recitation. I also can't play music. These tools do a great job. You may need to adjust the layout and punctuation for the voiced version. One added bonus is that you can edit the text so that they sound better when voiced. Cheers and Best Wishes



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