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When Poetry Is To Be Heard
1) Muriel Spark was a master of using sound in her poems to convey meaning in subtle and complex ways. She carefully crafted the arrangement of sounds through techniques like alliteration, repetition of phonemes, and variation of meter. 2) Other poets like Hopkins, Williams, and Heaney also skillfully employed sound symbolism and unusual rhythmic structures to add symbolic meaning and enhance comprehension beyond the literal words. 3) The document discusses how language and poetry can be understood as a kind of music, with poets experimenting with the musical possibilities of sounds and rhythms to express ideas in novel and intricate forms.
