Language In Emily Dickinson's Generation Ink

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Language is a comprehensive idea, it can be inferred as of the variety of languages for communication around the world, and to the way we use words to emit a possibly important message. Spoken word is perhaps one of the most controversial language that has possibly had a prodigiously influential affect to any one’s life, perspective, and realization on how we related to each other. Poetry has an approach of allowing our minds to venture into an abysmal extent of realization on how we relate to the similar circumstances, to the stories of others that we may never consider ever occurring towards the poet. Poems can literally alternate many lives, because they have transformed the way we observed at and listened to the world; there are poems that, on repeated readings, have gradually reveal areas of one’s experience, for reasons both personal and societal, that are often lost sight of; and there are poems that knowingly contained some underlying knowledge that has yet been discover, but we refused to …show more content…
In Generation Ink, many of the student were very great poets they have become very well comfortable in their skin that allowed them to perform fluently and effectively in front of crowds. As a friend of a poet that had won 2nd place in competitions at the Burton Library’s poetry slams and at other competitions around the valley, I grew to enjoy hearing and seeing how passionate slammers became as they spit out their thoughts. It was a humorous and emotional experience to attend. There are many different ways to hear poets and see them live, many display their live performances online through social media, and at city events like first Fridays. The thing that sticks with an audience member of poetry slams, is the amount of effort we do not know that a poet goes through to create a master

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