The best - classical - english and american (and a few danish, translated) poems, recited by "The Wordman", Ole Irenaeus Wieroed.
Poems should be HEARD, NOT READ!! That's my conviction! The difference between prose and poetry isn't only, that poems have got metrics and rhyme and prose doesn't. The poets - the good poets! - do a very great job making their poems sound well, to make them "harmonious", by using assonances, allitterations and the socalled "onomatopoietica", the fact, that words sound of what they mean; the word "mild" has the mellow m and l, "strong" has the harsh str-sound.
All these things aren't registrated, if poems are read - only HEARING a poem read can give you this experience!
The best way to "understand" a poem "in full" is: close your eyes and just listen!
Then both the sound and the "story" in it can be "taken in".
Reading a poem is like reading the score of a piece of music instead of listening to it, when played!
Ergo: POEMS SHOULD BE HEARD, NOT READ!!
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