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Show CHAPTER VIII SEVENTH AIM: VALUES "Too many speakers, in their excitement on one hand and in their spiritlessness on the other, glide along line after line in one monot drift. After almost every paragraph or stanza there is more or less of change in thought, and the apprehension of this change will be sufficient to modulate the vocal expression."-S. H. CLARK. onous Color, Value, Atmosphere. We have discussed in the last chapter the differentiation in ideas; there is equally great a variation. in feeling and thought in paragraphs. What atmosphere is to the entire whole, and what color is to the idea, value is to the paragraph. How little of that which is addressed to the reader does The printed page is a flat same the printed page give to the eye! ness broken only by artificial marks, large letters, and blank spaces. Speech is alive and vibrant, varying with each change of emotion The only remedy for monotonous reading and speaking or thought. is to think what you are to say and feel what you are to feel. the variations in inflection, as All force, pitch, stress, quality will be used needed-as they always have been since sound first began to be used-if the student will feel the emotion and speak the idea. quality of tone is governed by feeling, while and stress are governed by mental activity. The time, inflection, pitch Monotony comes from lazy thinking-taking the page for granted. We should not divorce the thought processes from the expression of them; they are one and the same thing. Example. Take for example this from Mathew Arnold's "Sohrab and Rustum": "Ferood, and ye Persians and Tartars, hear! 2. Let there be truce between the hosts to-day, 3. But choose a champion from the Persian lords 4. To fight our champion Sohrab, man to man." As in a country in a morn in June, 5. 6. When the dew glistens on the pearled ears, 7. A shiver runs through the deep corn for joy, 8. So, when they heard what Peran-Wisa said, 1. 102 . |
