Sound Idea Part 1: Sound Poetry
April 6, 2009
Allen Ginsberg, a prominent sound poet.
How do you make a poem or a story more tha just words? How do you make a poem or story turn into a performance, which the reader doesn’t even know he is reciting? How do you make a poem or story reflect true emotions while reading? These are the answers Sound POetry tends to answer and tries to justify within its writing.
Sten Hanson has described sound poetry as a combination of the exactness of literature and the time manipulation of music.
Sound Poetry is a form of literary or musical composition in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are established in the story in order to replace the more conventional semantic and syntactic value. This is where the performance aspect of sound poetry comes in because you are now adding that feeling and emotion to texts.
Examples include:
1. Smoke & Steam, broken glass & beer cans,
Auto exhaust.
( The repeated s and t sounds used in a pattern to show feeling. )
2.Sated upon the stillness of the bride.
For future stories in my writers’ craft class l would like to add more sound poetry because it elevates the emotions in the paper. Sound poetry sort of makes the story that much more real and open and l would like to have my readers be engaged in the story and have my readers know that they are reading something with a meaning and a sound behind it. The reader doesn’t have to know the sound behind it but at least the writer, me, will know there is hidden treasure beneath all those words. I am very movie oriented so getting emotions, pictures, and sound in a story is very satisfying because that is what makes a great pice or a a masterpiece.
