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Show HANDBOOK FOR TEACHERS OF INTERPRETATION 118 em passion or action." The reader must allow the public, recesses of his inner the see into to as it may appear, barrassing to heart. Because of the many are common unusual, intensified feeling demanded by poetry, embarrassed and place speech What is natural in feel unnatural. would be most unnatural in the expression of a lyric, and vice versa. Such expression is not a departure from but nature on a plane. Stimulate students when higher intensify, exalt ordinary emotions in order to insists that the encompass the author's feeling. Lyrical poetry "The let into until tensioned be speech-song. ring they feelings ter killeth but the spirit giveth life." Always the potentialities of the printed poem should be vocally realized. Poetry grows out of emotion and must be reproduced in emotion. The deeper the feel from John ing the more characteristic the rhythm. To quote is most the language, Mill form of Stuart perfect again: "Poetry, without and its ideas read emotional. When merely for essentially regard to its rhythm, or its emotion and spirit, it is no longer poetry, and its power as poetry is lost. When speech becomes strongly emotional, as in highly wrought passages of oratory, or narrative and descriptive prose, it tends to drop into regular rhythmic order nature, reading poetry to of equal time intervals." Time. Wave patterns do not govern the time in which the poem should be read. a wave may be rapid or slow as of time-"time is the mind's measure The beats in governed by the principle ment"; the tempo indicates the amount of collateral thought, th€ time necessary to move from one conception to the next one. The in proportion in the wave pattern must always be maintained, is time of The be read. whatever tempo the poem may principle is voiced. it for prose-when no different in poetry from what Be careful about the bad habit of all inexperienced readers, and some experienced ones, of running down on lines and on the end of paragraphs. The end of the world has not ideas come in the as would seem sequence by the reading. Carry The same principles of relationship govern both. The line should be marked by a slight pause, but not with mental to differentiate completeness, unless so indicated. Take pains also indicated as in prose. over same |
