The Sound of Reading.

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  • Author(s): Berold, Robert
  • Source:
    English in Africa. Aug2018, Vol. 45 Issue 2, p29-39. 11p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      Psychology of reading; Art & literature; Sound; Autobiographical fiction; Poetry (Literary form)
    • Abstract:
      This essay recounts, in autobiographical form, how poetry transformed me. It began at school with an unanticipated response to the internal music of a poem. Later, drawn primarily by sound and image, I responded to form, texture, ideas and movement in particular poems. These poems and poets - a few of them quoted here - woke me into an awareness of where I was, and gave me the courage to live with my confusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]