Bunny Does Lit Crit

[poliphilo]

Ailz is revising for her Open University exam (tomorrow) and I've been helping out by reading poems onto tape for her.

Great chunks of Wordsworth and Coleridge and other romantics.

There's an almost sensual pleasure to be had from reading poetry aloud.

Bunny enjoys listening. He went wild over Tintern Abbey- racing round the room and jumping about like a march hare.

But he doesn't like Kubla Khan. First time I read it he bit through the microphone lead. Second time he ran away and hid.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Wordsworth is a particular pleasure. I love the way he constructs in long sentences and paragraphs and how you have a prose rythmn superimposed on the tum-ti-tum of iambic verse.

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

I've always had a thing for aliterations, so I love reading The Ballad of Reading Gaol or Beowulf... Such power in the repetition of consonants!

He does not die a death of shame
On a day of dark disgrace...

-The d's in those lines just send shivers down my spine whenever I read it...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I have in my possession a first edition of the Ballad of Reading Gaol- a lttle worm-eaten, but nevertheless....

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

*covets*