How does the poem differ in its two recensions? What reading does spoken word (orality) privilege? What does the textual writing space (unconventional as it is) play in the transmission of meaning?
The first reading of Taylor Mali's poem that we experienced was his original on-stage performance. Next we viewed a Wordle interpretation of his performance. I felt his on stage performance was more effective in displaying his attitude towards how we speak today because you could see his body language and facial expressions change as he spoke. When he was making fun of how we speak today you could see how he put emphasis on certain words, or phrases that he was saying by watching how he moved his body as he said them. Through his facial expressions and body language, spoken word helps him to easily express his feelings about this subject to his audience.
In the Wordle presentation you could only hear his voice, but every word he said was on the screen. Certain words were bigger than others, or in different font styles. For example, the word "like" was always italicized. Other words that he clearly spoke louder than other were BIGGER than others. The text was edited and displayed to give the viewer a better understanding of the message that the creator of the video got as he listened/viewed Mali's original on stage performance. The writing spaces can be edited in order to emphasize certain words through things like font, size of the text, color, bold, italicize, underline and even more.
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