Printed poetry is very much like sheet music:  poetic accentual-syllabic meter is much like music’s time signatures

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Printed poetry is very much like sheet music:  poetic accentual-syllabic meter is much like music’s time signatures. But the performances of both carry a variety of emotions. Listen to Bruce Cockburn’s’ “Lovers in a Dangerous Time” and The Barenaked Ladies version or listen to Miles Davis’s “Black Satin” and DJ Krush’s remix. Then discuss how the pair you have chosen vary in melody, rhythm, tone, and/or mood given the different performances. (200 – 300 words)

Readings of the same poem can vary.  Listen to the two reading of William Shakespeare’s “Let me not the marriage of true minds,” and discuss how the two readings stress differences in Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter.  Do the two different readings tell us anything about how to read poetry for expression and interpretation? (200 – 300 words)

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Cockburn’s version follows a progressive rhythm in the stanzas and a regular descending rhythm in the chorus section. It comprises fast periodic pulses of beats creating a joyful and hopeful mood to the message conveyed. Cockburn version has a perfectly moderate tempo from the start to the end which constructs a………………………

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