Poetry is a fresh look and a fresh listen Robert Frost Explore how one or more
... However, some art, such as poetry, can be a combination of the two, being both visually and musically expressed, therefore requiring the reader to use both their eyes and their ears. This approach is very important when you consider that not all poems were written with the sole intent of being read quietly to one’s self but to be performed aloud to an audience. ... If only one of these methods were applied a poet’s intentionally hidden meaning may be lost. ... Matthew Sweeney has been able to do this, giving poetry a ‘fresh look and a fresh listen’, by gathering contemporary poems and printing them in both text and Braille . ... On reading (or hearing) the title of Rossetti’s poem ‘Song’ one would assume the poem to be in the form of a praise to someone or something, or to express the emotion of happiness. ... This encourages the reader to pause, which in turn gives more time to consider the plant imagery, which extends to a metaphor of the dying speaker being with one to the dying plant. ... One way of reiterating this is by Rossetti’s clever play on the word ‘wilt’ in both the seventh and eighth lines ‘And if thou wilt remember,/And if thou wilt, forget. ... The rhyme scheme struggles to be either regular or irregular, reflecting the speaker’s struggle to decide whether she will ‘remember’ or ‘forget’ her loved one. ... ‘Song’ is only one of many poems where Rossetti concentrates on and tries to come to terms with her own fear of death. ... This insecurity is thinly veiled behind the controlled and composed façade of her poetry and life, as represented in her poems.