Elements of Spoken Word Poetry that classroom instructors can make to enliven their professional work ~ Lalit Kishore

 Elements of Spoken Word Poetry that classroom instructors can make to enliven their professional work ~ Lalit Kishore

 Since the son a topic is the poetry that is written on a page with rich poetic phrases ans lines but performed in front of an audience. However, to turn it into a performing art it should have the following elements. So, it should be (a) rhythmic, (b) rhetorical, (c) free associations, (d) slant rhyming, (e) word play, (f) slang, (g) tempo, (f) loudness, (g) musical tone, (h) theatre and movement, (i) language arts, and (j) improvisation

Though, it long practiced art form rooted in the oral traditions of many cultures as a folk art with a conversation as storey telling going with rhythm, folk music and theatre.

"There seems to be a bit of a divide, though, between the academic world and the spoken word movement. Most colleges don’t “teach” the art of spoken word. It’s usually something you have to experience on your own out in the community," holds (Nyquist, n. d.)[1] with a note of optimism that "What does the future hold for spoken word? Plenty! There is so much hunger out there in the world and writers need to be courageous enough to improvise, collaborate and cross disciplines, boundaries and cultures to get the art of spoken word out into the community.

According to poemanalysis.com (n.d.)[2] the lyrics of the spoken word poems sould include language arts to make rendering rhythmic like alliteration (the same sound at the beginning of adjacent words); assonance:  the recurrence of the vowel sound in successive words); consonance (the reuse of consonant sounds in nearby words); Rhyme (the recurrence of identical sounds in consecutive lines); repetition (the use of one word or idea several times across a text) and onomatopoeia (the words imitating natural sound). It is added by the website that the main characteristics of spoken word poetry include the use of wordplay, humour, intonation, gestures, and euphony.

With the inclusion of musical intelligence as a component of multiple intelligences theory of learning, teachers can easily provide experience to children in creating spoken word poems on important concepts of prescribed content and rendering them in the classroom.

References

1.       Nyquist, Jules (n. d.). The Art of Spoken Word, Loft Literary Center, from https://doitgreen.org/topics/arts/art-spoken-word/

2.       poemanalysis.com (n.d.). Spoken Word Poetry Definition and Examples: Poem Analysis, from https://poemanalysis.com › Genre




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