You Can Listen Here Poets express their impressions of the world through voice, the sound of the poem spoken inside the readers’ imaginations and on their tongues.The individual voice is distinctive, authoritative, convincing. One cannot mistake poems by Seamus Heaney for Elizabeth Bishop’s , Robert Frost’s for Robert Lowell’s , Wallace Steven’s for Wilfred Owen’s . Their pitch and register, rhythms and intonations, catches and breaks, their melodies — all these bear the mark of the individual poet. Mark Doty tells us that “Poetry’s work is to make […]
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