Poetry and performance
Reading Response: Poetry and Performance
listen to We Real Cool and My Papa’s Waltz. These clips demonstrate the importance of performance, rhythm, and musicality in the poetic form.
Describe your listening experience of one or more of the poems. (If you prefer, you may find a recording of another poem from the course readings and describe your listening experience of it instead. If you choose this option, be sure to provide a link to the audio of the chosen poem.) How did hearing the text(s) recited aloud compare to a silent reading of it/them? Did the performance in any ways add to or detract from your experience of the text? Did the performance change your perception of the poem or its content in any ways? Explain how (or how not).
Support your ideas with textual details and analysis. When applicable, address how specific literary techniques and/or devices contributed to your experience?
Initial posts must be 200 to 300 words in lengthl
Clugston, R. W. (2014). Journey into literature (2nd ed.). San Diego, California: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
………………Answer Preview…………………….Poets have an intriguing way of contextualizing words through the use of literary elements. However these elements are best outlined when the poem is audibly performed as it is witnessed in the poem of My Papa’s Waltz. On listening to the poem one has a better understanding of the topic of the poem as compared to reading the poem silently since one is easily distracted by drifting into one’s perception of the message in the poem. On listening to the poem one becomes more empowered on the literary elements such as the iambic meter. This is whereby……………..