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© 2024 Google LLC. Read a poem out loudIn this lesson you will learn how to read a poem out loud by noticing line breaks, punctuation, and sounds in the poem.ADDITIONAL MATERIA...
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Step one
Read your poem through silently several times to familiarize yourself with its core ideas and images. What's the main point of this poem? What's the poet saying? (Can you put that into your own words? Try. It will help you make sense of it.) Similarly, allow yourself to see the images/scenarios created by the words in your imagination. Likewise feel the emotions. The more you understand and get inside the poem, the more likely your audience will be able to understand it when you deliver it.
Step Two
Read your chosen poem quietly aloud to yourself following the guidelines given by the punctuation, listening for its musicality or beat. If you need them, there are tips for interpreting punctuationhere. Read slowly. Allow each word its space. The temptation is to rush. Resist it. Once you've 'got the flow' of it, stand up and read the poem aloud authoritatively.
Step three
Now that you're more confident 'play' with your delivery, experimenting with vocal variety. For example, what happens if you stress this word rather than thatword? Does it change the meaning? How? Say your poem as many ways as you can. Say it loud. Say it soft. Say it gathering speed, getting faster and faster. Say it slow and low. Say it with a silly accent. In short, have fun with it. Experiment! And record what you do. When you play the recordings back, you'll find some of the ways you've...
To illustrate howa poem is said alters how it's experienced by those listening to it, I recorded Eve Merriam's poem 'How to eat a poem' five different ways. 1. You can hear it fast: 'How to eat a poem' read quickly 2. You can hear it slow: 'How to eat a poem' read slowly 3. You can hear it with heavy stresses or emphasis on various random words: 'H...
There are also recordings of 6 much-loved children's nonsense poems. You'll find those here, along with activity suggestions and printables: poems for kids
Nov 27, 2007 · Reading a Poem Aloud. Before you get very far with a poem, you have to read it. In fact, you can learn quite a few things just by looking at it. The title may give you some image or association to start with.
Aug 23, 2012 · 7 Tips for Reading Poetry Aloud. Read the poem silently several times before trying to read it aloud. Think deeply about the meaning, and note words or lines of special significance. If you have access to a high-quality recorded version of the poem, listen to it, noticing the reader’s emphasis and inflections.
Oct 9, 2015 · Poetry secrets: How to read a poem aloud. Poet Paul Cookson orders you to unzip your lips and get poetry off the page and into the air. Paul Cookson. Fri 9 Oct 2015 07.30 EDT.
