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- Spoken Poetry (Rhetoric)
← John saw this randomly in Berkeley.
Books
Other Men's Flowers
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/oct/01/featuresreviews.guardianreview5
- What accounted for its success? My guess is that it made poetry respectable for manly men - Wavell's section on war is called "Good Fighting" but his section on love a tongue-tied "Love and All That" - in an age when reciteable poetry still had a popular appeal.
Poems for rappers
- "If" by Rudyard Kipling
Famous poems
- Sonnet 18
- David Tennant recites Sonnet 18
- This is a competent but very subdued reading.
- Hip-Hop & Shakespeare? Akala at TEDxAldeburgh
- It's a good idea to rap the sonnet but a bad reading, the guy clearly hasn't thought about what the lines actually mean and how they should be inflected to sound like natural speech. He's rapping too fast.
- David Tennant recites Sonnet 18
- "If" by Rudyard Kipling
- If, Rudyard Kipling's poem, recitated by Sir Michael Caine
- He really messes up a lot...he totally messes up the most famous line in the poem, "If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run", he says "forty seconds" instead.
- If, Rudyard Kipling's poem, recitated by Sir Michael Caine
- The New Colossus
- Obama Outlines Immigration Reform (full video)
- Obama doesn't give a good reading. It sounds stiff.
- Obama Outlines Immigration Reform (full video)
Misc
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme_scheme
- Q: Why does rap not use as many rhyme schemes as poetry does?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_verse
- Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has taken since the 16th century", and Paul Fussell has estimated that "about three quarters of all English poetry is in blank verse"
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Techniques
- Wikipedia - Figure of speech
- This has a great list of figures of speech.
Lists of great poems
Shakespeare
Summary of the techniques he uses
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- 2014.10.09 - Nautilus - Shakespeare’s Genius Is Nonsense
- TODO: Finish summarizing this.
- Summary
- Stephen Booth teaches Shakespeare and is highly regarded by his students.
- He wrote a famous book, first published in 1977, that compiles Shakespeare's sonnets and "explores the ambiguity and polysemy of Shakespeare’s verse".
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Booth follows editorial convention in pointing out the two potential meanings of breese (“light wind” and “gadfly”). Meanwhile, he observes, the second, quieter effect of flies (denoting both “retreating” and “insects”) has been passed over—but not without effect. While both senses of breese or flies pertain, Booth notes that “in calling the effect a pun, we both exaggerate and underestimate its effect”—exaggerate because it’s less self-conscious than a pun, and underestimate because it achieves much more than one. An explicit pun is a momentary flash, and then it’s over. More valuable for Booth are the links that spread out from each word based on “its sound, sounds that resemble it, its sense, its potential senses, their homonyms, their cognates, their synonyms, and their antonyms.” Unexploded puns conserve their energy and preserve these links, creating rich, multilayered, imbricating patterns throughout a work.
What’s essential to Booth is that for readers and audiences—for everyone but the professional critic—these patterns usually remain below the threshold of our attention. What he calls the “physics” of the verse are available to general readers, but not obtrusive. In his 1998 book Precious Nonsense, Booth argues that the experiences that Shakespeare’s poetic language evokes with such verve and subtlety are intensifications of everyday language experiences. Shakespeare achieves this by weaving incredibly rich networks from the same kinds of “substantive nonsense and nonimporting patterns” that pop up in slang, jokes, songs, and nursery rhymes. Those dense networks of patterns, Booth posits, are “the principal source of the greatness we find in Shakespeare’s work.”
- I can't say I fully understand what he's saying.
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- 2017.02.24 - YouTube - NativLang - What Shakespeare's English Sounded Like - and how we know
- Towards the end he gives an example of Shakespeare playing around with the ordering of words, where he combines two sentences into one, so that the audience has to untangle them:
- I with death and with
Reward did threaten and encourage him,
Not doing ’t and being done - Translation:
I threatened to kill him if he didn’t and to reward him if he did.
- I with death and with
- Towards the end he gives an example of Shakespeare playing around with the ordering of words, where he combines two sentences into one, so that the audience has to untangle them: