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  2. Poetry reading - Wikipedia

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    Reciting a poem aloud the reciter comes to understand and then to be the 'voice' of the poem. [2] As poetry is a vocal art, the speaker brings their own experience to it, changing it according to their own sensibilities, [3] intonation, the matter of sound making sense; controlled through pitch and stress, poems are full of invisible italicized ...

  3. Narrative poetry - Wikipedia

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    An example of this is The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning. In terms of narrative poetry, romance is a narrative poem that tells a story of chivalry. Examples include the Romance of the Rose or Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Although those examples use medieval and Arthurian materials, romances may also tell stories from classical mythology.

  4. Shigin - Wikipedia

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    Example gin with vocal annotation to the right of each character, Shān xíng, is poetry from Chinese poet Du Mu (9th century) Shigin (Japanese: 詩吟, IPA:) is a performance of reciting a Japanese poem or a Chinese poem read in Japanese, each poem (詩 shi) usually chanted (吟 gin) by an individual or in a group. Reciting can be done loudly ...

  5. And Still I Rise - Wikipedia

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    And Still I Rise is Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self-imposed muteness.

  6. Dithyramb - Wikipedia

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    Attic relief (4th century BCE) depicting an aulos player and his family standing before Dionysos and a female consort, with theatrical masks displayed above. The dithyramb (/ ˈ d ɪ θ ɪ r æ m /; [1] Ancient Greek: διθύραμβος, dithyrambos) was an ancient Greek hymn sung and danced in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility; the term was also used as an epithet of the god. [2]

  7. Wilson MacDonald - Wikipedia

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    MacDonald "was something of an artist, a designer. Frequently he illustrated his own poems and dabbled with illumination and typography." [attribution needed] [1] There are many examples online of individual poems illustrated or calligraphed by MacDonald, which look like merchandising aimed at those unwilling or unable to buy a whole book. [4]

  8. Andrew Motion - Wikipedia

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    As laureate, he also founded the Poetry Archive, an on-line library of historic and contemporary recordings of poets reciting their own work. [24] Motion remarked that he found some of the duties attendant to the post of poet laureate difficult and onerous and that the appointment had been "very, very damaging to [his] work". [25]

  9. Oral poetry - Wikipedia

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    Oral poetry differs from oral literature in general because oral literature encompasses linguistic registers which are not considered poetry. In most oral literature, poetry is defined by the fact that it conforms to metrical rules; examples of non-poetic oral literature in Western culture include some jokes, speeches and storytelling.