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Thanks for sharing this. I found it difficult to parse the initial couple of lines because I was constantly attempting to read by attaching meaning to the spel
by madacoo 8y ago
Thanks for sharing this.
I found it difficult to parse the initial couple of lines because I was constantly attempting to read by attaching meaning to the spellings: "Eye halve" is a bit frightening in that sense. But then I realised I can read the text as sounds and almost ignore the spellings. Listening to what the sounds made in my head allowed for a much faster pace of comprehension because I didn't have to keep correcting myself.
This poem demonstrated for me that it is possible to read and listen simultaneously, and that I don't usually do that. It seems that it would probably add to the experience of other poems to read them in this manner.
- rplnt 8y agoOne part I can't "translate" is this: It plainly marques four my revue
- mikepurvis 8y ago"It plainly marks for my review"
- adamsea 8y agoIt does! A lot, imho.
- scott_s 8y agoI think this is how all poems should be read, and I didn't realize until just now that I automatically did that.
- astine 8y agoThere is apparently a big divide between people who subvocalize when they read and those who don't. Those who don't tend to read much faster than those who do which is why speedreading techniques tend to focus on eliminated subvocalization. The problem is that people who subvocalize tend to need to do so in order to understand the text. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization
- scott_s 8y agoThanks for the term - I think I typically don't subvocalize, but I do when I read poems.
- derefr 8y agoI wonder whether the people who do subvocalize when they read tend to be better at writing poetry (or songwriting, or just writing beautiful prose.) I would expect that they'd have been subconsciously training themselves to the "feel" of good meter.
- earenndil 8y agoThere might be a correlation, but it's not a hard-and-fast rule. I've been told that my prose -- and poetry -- is good, and I definitely don't subvocalize.