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I think this is how all poems should be read, and I didn't realize until just now that I automatically did that.
by scott_s 9y ago
I think this is how all poems should be read, and I didn't realize until just now that I automatically did that.
- astine 9y 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 9y agoThanks for the term - I think I typically don't subvocalize, but I do when I read poems.
- derefr 9y 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 9y 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.