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Originally Posted by kandwo
You are the third one to point this out and I get where you are coming from. Of course, I, too, get this voice in my head reading poetry, and I'm not saying that all the sounds are lost. But it's easy to think you're getting it all when you aren't.
Do some comparisons with poems you haven't read before (preferably some lauded classics that you know have some musicality/wordplay/alliteration/whatever to them). Read them quietly using that inner voice and then out loud and see if there's a difference.
Do the same thing if you are writing someone a more elaborate e-mail. Read it through quietly - does it sound good? Read it once aloud as if you were speaking directly to the person - does it sound as good? Do you notice other aspects of your writing doing the latter?
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I don't understand. If I read it aloud, it's exactly the same as if I'm reading it, since I create the voice in my head that I hear when I'm reading it silently. I could understand your point if you said to listen to someone else read it aloud, but not having me read it.
I don't know...maybe there's something wrong with me, but if I read it out loud to myself it's going to sound exactly the same to me as if I read it silently to myself. This is why I sometimes send emails to a friend to read before I send them to the recipient. Sometimes what sounds fine to me in an email sounds really...erm..."witchy" to others.
Shari