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The Art of Reading Poetry Aloud

Dear Listeners,

The latest Victorian poems we have recorded include William Wordsworth's 'The Daffodil's and Tennyson,s The revenge. These are companions to the Victorian classics; William Blake's 'Tyger,Tyger' and Browing Browning's 'Pied Piper of Hamelin',  already on Storynory.com. They have spurred some thoughts about the benefits of reading poetry out loud.

Reading poetry aloud can deepen your understanding and engagement with the text, help improve your literary and language, as well as your speaking and listening skills.

Reading aloud can help your appreciation of poetry and improve your speaking voice. After a few chapters of reading aloud, your awkwardness will disappear.

As with any art form, if you practice it, you will get better.

Almost all poetry was created to be spoken out loud, and good poets know that poety starts in the mouth.

Sadly, children are not brought up to read out loud anymore, but if your trust yourself you may see some small improvements.

Why not try practicing reading aloud a little and often, and combine your practice with listening to some of the audio recordings we have here?

Storynory combines the audio of the poem with the text and visuals to help you engage with the literature.  But you can also practice doing this yourself with any poem if you have the text to hand. T

Why not try listening to these four Victorian poems in the sequence that we have in our 'Storynory Poetry' category

William Blakes Tyger Tyger
Robert Browings The Pied Piper of Hamelin
and recent audio poem recording's
Wordsworth's The Daffodil's
and Tennysons The Revenge

All are from England and are Victorian poems with similar romantic, social and epic themes.

Verse forms patterns and meter and rhyming verse ends meter.

They're also have highly poetic and metaphoric language, typical of Victorian verse poetry.

Combing listening to these Victorian poems will also help you appreciate them by providing an historical context as as they were all written around the same time in the Victorian period, between 1700- 1900.

There will be more audio poems from another great Victorian poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to come, so look out and listen for that...

In the mean time I hope you enjoy learning about the poems,  and you get to listen and take time to read out loud for yourselves..