Vlogging Verses: Two Sestinas
Sunday, January 25th @ 9:16 am
| Poetry, vlogging verses Tags:Poem, sestina, vlog, youtube
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So, internet-land, thus far our communications have been text-based, and it has been good. But there is so much more available and limiting ourselves to typing is just not taking advantage of all the modern adaptations available on this Web 2.0 deal.
This video includes two sestinas: Sestina for No One and Sestina that I wrote a while ago, but since I have a prompt up over at Read Write Poem about sestinas, I thought I would kick off this vlogging experiment with a reading of those two.
Internet-land, what I would like to know is if you like this idea of both seeing and hearing me. Questions, comments, suggestions, and proposals of marriage all welcome!
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We pay for the amount of internet bandwidth we use here, and video really chews up the kilobytes compared to text on a web page. So I don’t generally watch video on the internet much, unless it really adds something substantial – more than “oh, so that’s what he sounds like”.
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I’m very much in favour of hearing poems read, although I’m not set up to do it myself yet. In ‘Sestina’ when you asked a question the change in tone was arresting. On the page, I was distracted by the change in line length for alternate stanza, which disappears when the poem is read. I read both poems first and think both were enhanced by being read.
Thanks, Catherine and Carole. I can understand not watching video’s without freely available bandwidth. I do think I will continue recording the videos because, as Carole pointed out, the texture of the poem is different when read or heard and I think both ways can offer a different experience of it.
Greetings Tom – Very interesting blog here! I invite you to stop by Image & Verse and say hello.
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Hey! I think this is great that you’re doing this. I think the spoken word makes the first poem sing! It is really terrific.
I think the 2nd piece is my favorite. Intriguing language.
Serifs. I prefer them. I think they are more personal in that they are not-modern and they have little feet and hands that grab at you. Serifs have been around for ages; sans, only in the present time. I think there was, maybe last year or the year ago, a celebratory retrospective film of the birth of Helvetica.
Studies also tend to say that serif is more legible than sanserif.
I am an equal opportunity employer, though. :-)
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