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Original Articles

“Turning” in the interpretation of verse

Pages 39-53 | Published online: 01 Apr 2009
 

Abstract

In the performance of poetry oral interpreters are obliged to indicate the ends of lines or where the poet “turns” from one verse to the next. These turnings are significant clues to meanings of both nontraditional verse, such as e.e. cummings” “in Just‐,” as well as imagistic and traditional poetry. Run‐on lines produce especially interesting tensions. In addition to pausing there are many ways in which oral interpreters may indicate turnings of a poem.

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