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From: James Elliott <libraryjim>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 16:02:43 -0400 (EDT)
1) I didn't mean in my remarks that we shouldn't EVER discuss or analyze poetry, only that we should be careful of OVER-analyzing it, that, like the previous poster stated, we take it into the realm of fiction -- finding things that aren't there or never have been intended. Of course we analyze poetry! It would be a short meeting of the poetry slam club, otherwise. and I wondered what authors thought when people found meanings not intended. That's all. no offesne meant!
Rather like:
As I was going up the stair I saw a man who wasn?t there He wasn?t there again today I wish, I wish, he?d stay away.
-- William Hughes Mearns (1875-1965)"Antigonish" (1899)
2) Has anyone used a poem set to music in teaching poetry? My point of reference is that one of my teacher friends has used Loreena McKennitt's version of Alfred Noyes' "the Highwayman" (album: Book of Secrets") and Tennyson's "Lady of Shallot" (album: "the Visit") to show how different mediums bring forth different views to poetry. First they read and/or listened to the spoken version, discussed it, then listened to the sung version, and discussed how they differed or what each brought to the work in terms of style, etc.
Loreena's website is:
http://www.quinlanroad.com/homepage/index.asp
Soundclips: http://www.quinlanroad.com/explorethemusic/index.asp and click on the album for excerpts.
Jim Elliott North Florida, USA
"Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open ... every child in America should have access to a well-stocked school or community library"
--Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
Received on Fri 04 Apr 2008 03:02:43 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 16:02:43 -0400 (EDT)
1) I didn't mean in my remarks that we shouldn't EVER discuss or analyze poetry, only that we should be careful of OVER-analyzing it, that, like the previous poster stated, we take it into the realm of fiction -- finding things that aren't there or never have been intended. Of course we analyze poetry! It would be a short meeting of the poetry slam club, otherwise. and I wondered what authors thought when people found meanings not intended. That's all. no offesne meant!
Rather like:
As I was going up the stair I saw a man who wasn?t there He wasn?t there again today I wish, I wish, he?d stay away.
-- William Hughes Mearns (1875-1965)"Antigonish" (1899)
2) Has anyone used a poem set to music in teaching poetry? My point of reference is that one of my teacher friends has used Loreena McKennitt's version of Alfred Noyes' "the Highwayman" (album: Book of Secrets") and Tennyson's "Lady of Shallot" (album: "the Visit") to show how different mediums bring forth different views to poetry. First they read and/or listened to the spoken version, discussed it, then listened to the sung version, and discussed how they differed or what each brought to the work in terms of style, etc.
Loreena's website is:
http://www.quinlanroad.com/homepage/index.asp
Soundclips: http://www.quinlanroad.com/explorethemusic/index.asp and click on the album for excerpts.
Jim Elliott North Florida, USA
"Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open ... every child in America should have access to a well-stocked school or community library"
--Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
Received on Fri 04 Apr 2008 03:02:43 PM CDT
