BEST PRACTICES – PADYA PARIMALAM (SC20749)

BEST PRACTICES – PADYA PARIMALAM (SC20749)

Poems may be written texts, but they are meant to be read aloud and poetry is best experienced out loud. Poetry has been around a long time. Originally poems were part of the oral tradition, and they were used to pass along stories, cultural beliefs, and ideas. Poems were created to be heard.

First, poems are aural compositions. Poets compose their works with the ear in mind. a poet said, ”No poem, which when mastered, is not better heard than read is good poetry.” In other words, good poetry works better through the ears than through the eyes.

Poets develop an ear for the musicality of language, and that’s why we have so many words for the acoustic effects in poetry. Acoustics refers to the sounds in a poem. Words not only deliver a meaning, but they deliver a sound as well.