I've heard Elizabeth Alexander recite before. She's always like that.
It's an aural attempt to render the poetic structure from the page -- an attempt to make it Sound Like Poetry™. It's had its proponents for much of the 20th century, but it's been largely discredited as pretentious at best or laughable at worst. But you still get the odd duck who thinks it's what the words are supposed to sound like.
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Date: 2009-01-20 06:45 pm (UTC)It's an aural attempt to render the poetic structure from the page -- an attempt to make it Sound Like Poetry™. It's had its proponents for much of the 20th century, but it's been largely discredited as pretentious at best or laughable at worst. But you still get the odd duck who thinks it's what the words are supposed to sound like.