Yes, we're back in Brussels and at the chalk face.
I wrote that one line up on the board (it is wide enough to take AG's expansive line) and then thought why not preserve the annotations.
Yes, I do make all sorts of lines and squiggles. Initially I thought that was just a personal tic then Lisa J told me she gets students to use different colours for sounds when looking for vowel patternings.
With me it's probably some kind of compensation for not being able to grasp Classical scansion. I never seem to hear the stress in quite the way the textbooks suggest.
My hope for my students is that graphic notation wakens the dormant ears. The majority read with their eyes alone.
I must say slowing AG's line down line this really opens up not just the sound but also grammatical 'energies' - the way "tatters" hovers between plural noun and verb.
I could spend all day doing this kind of reading (a feeling not shared, alas, by many of my students ...).
The soundtrack was purely coincidental: my computer was streaming BBC Radio 3's Jazz programme on Listen Again mode - suddenly it started streaming. I think it was an extract from the South African pianist who died recently.
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That was great...
Good to have you back, Mr Carpenter. Are all your poetry books full of arrows linking the vowels? I like your notation method. Could be useful...
All the best,
W
What was the soundtrack, btw? W
Ha!
Yes, we're back in Brussels and at the chalk face.
I wrote that one line up on the board (it is wide enough to take AG's expansive line) and then thought why not preserve the annotations.
Yes, I do make all sorts of lines and squiggles. Initially I thought that was just a personal tic then Lisa J told me she gets students to use different colours for sounds when looking for vowel patternings.
With me it's probably some kind of compensation for not being able to grasp Classical scansion. I never seem to hear the stress in quite the way the textbooks suggest.
My hope for my students is that graphic notation wakens the dormant ears. The majority read with their eyes alone.
I must say slowing AG's line down line this really opens up not just the sound but also grammatical 'energies' - the way "tatters" hovers between plural noun and verb.
I could spend all day doing this kind of reading (a feeling not shared, alas, by many of my students ...).
The soundtrack was purely coincidental: my computer was streaming BBC Radio 3's Jazz programme on Listen Again mode - suddenly it started streaming. I think it was an extract from the South African pianist who died recently.
PS - apologies for the various errors - a result of hasty typing.
Picked up a second copy of Duncan's Selected from the Oxfam bookshop in Reading. I now have a reading copy (to scribble in) plus one 'for best'!
hey man, that was sweetly done, I suspect Allen would be very pleased.
Many thanks for that - and for continuing to drop by.
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