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  1. May 22, 2017 · Listen to poet Mark Doty read “In Two Seconds: Tamir Rice, 2002-2014.” Having spent the semester studying embodiment and the ways in which we, as readers of the world around us, react to the ways that bodies communicate, students showed a keen ability to articulate the ways in which Doty’s body language and vocal intonation enhanced his message.

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  2. Apr 20, 2020 · Sensation in Poetry and Voice Work. Many poets use the language of the senses in their descriptions of poetry. Emily Dickinson Citation [1870] 1951 described an intense physical reaction: “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry” (254).

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  3. Aug 19, 2014 · The poet may have in mind the body language of someone else, someone loved or hated. The poem will be made as the drawing is drawn. Someone, something is in mind. And the appropriate body language must be found, and, with luck, not savaged by its typesetting. The appearance of a poem on a page is a kind of celebration of its body language.

  4. Aug 27, 2024 · In the end, body language in poetry bears witness to the profound and unbreakable bond between the corporeal and the metaphysical, as well as the physical and the emotional. By using the expressive power of their bodies to create poetry that speaks to the reader’s bones as much as their minds, poets can produce works viscerally felt and not just academically stimulating.

  5. Dec 18, 2012 · Many professional poets express disdain toward Maya Angelou as a poet, but more of them really could learn something from her body language. Sanchez and Baraka will spend moments of their performances closing their eyes and showing a level of strain as they channel the look of musicians more so than conventional poets.

  6. As it happens, the specific kinds of language-use traditionally associated with poetry that we call figures of speech – metaphor, synecdoche, metonymy, and personification; tautology, oxymoron, ellipsis, and so on – can all be found in everyday speech. But everyday speech simply will not tolerate their self-conscious or too frequent usage ...

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  8. Jun 25, 2012 · Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul. Hard conversations are welcomed—laughter is, too.

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