"The Unsayable Said" and responses to poetry
Donald Hall, in The Unsayable Said, says, "Poetry is not talk. It sounds like talk...but poetry is talk altered into art, speech slowed down and attended to, words arranged for the reader who contracts to read them for their whole heft of association and noise...Reading with care, so that a wholeness of language engages a wholeness of reading body and mind, we absorb poetry not with our eyes only nor with our ears at a reading. We read with our mouths that chew on vowel and consonant; we read with our limbed muscles that enact the dance of the poem's rhythm; we read alert to history and the context of words."
What images or lines in the poems we read in class support Hall's concept that poetry demands more of a response from us than merely mind or eyes can give?
ProfC
What images or lines in the poems we read in class support Hall's concept that poetry demands more of a response from us than merely mind or eyes can give?
ProfC
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