Exhaustion Or Death?: Sounds And Choice Within A Reading Of Philip's Zong
Exhaustion or Death?:
Sounds and choice within a Reading of Philip’s Zong! #1
NourbeSe Philip’s poetry within Zong! has a plethora of interpretations due according to the individual style and choices of the reader. Basing the way that a reader wishes to interpret upon their imagining of cruelties committed aboard a slave ship, fears of drowning or water, or altered using the historical context implicit to the name of the collection. Furthering these choices in group readings to express multiple cries for sustenance versus a single voice having the vitality to speak for all those in a worse condition. In addition, the way that a reader looks upon the page, whether than are seeking patterns through the artificial application of breaks to …show more content…
Gilbert (Philip 210-211) details pertaining to the deaths of these captive African slaves are illuminated. Zong #1 has the possibility to for reading either in the sense of drowning within a storm or of death from dehydration, the latter confirmed as the cause in the judgement document altering the reading I performed towards this. Attempting to recreate the environment in which the greatest cruelty is being enacted upon the captives use of a tropical storm backgrounds the track, as this would be a situation in which fresh water is in abundant supply and withholding this resource from the captives becomes an active choice. Additionally, to place the background within the appropriate era the additional sounds of creaking wood are within the …show more content…
While I did imagine the groanings of 150 captives in an initial interpratation of the poem, the want of water would create overlapping sounds destroying the emotion and preence of the reader without a cautious audience. Thus I used a single speaker with the aforementioned chain links to punctuate the speech. These choices allowed myself to read the poem at a single level of volume, falling off of the hard consonant sounds three times, representing the exertion of the captive to make a full word such as God, days, or want, which at least a full bar of spacing succeeded prior to the next
Sounds and choice within a Reading of Philip’s Zong! #1
NourbeSe Philip’s poetry within Zong! has a plethora of interpretations due according to the individual style and choices of the reader. Basing the way that a reader wishes to interpret upon their imagining of cruelties committed aboard a slave ship, fears of drowning or water, or altered using the historical context implicit to the name of the collection. Furthering these choices in group readings to express multiple cries for sustenance versus a single voice having the vitality to speak for all those in a worse condition. In addition, the way that a reader looks upon the page, whether than are seeking patterns through the artificial application of breaks to …show more content…
Gilbert (Philip 210-211) details pertaining to the deaths of these captive African slaves are illuminated. Zong #1 has the possibility to for reading either in the sense of drowning within a storm or of death from dehydration, the latter confirmed as the cause in the judgement document altering the reading I performed towards this. Attempting to recreate the environment in which the greatest cruelty is being enacted upon the captives use of a tropical storm backgrounds the track, as this would be a situation in which fresh water is in abundant supply and withholding this resource from the captives becomes an active choice. Additionally, to place the background within the appropriate era the additional sounds of creaking wood are within the …show more content…
While I did imagine the groanings of 150 captives in an initial interpratation of the poem, the want of water would create overlapping sounds destroying the emotion and preence of the reader without a cautious audience. Thus I used a single speaker with the aforementioned chain links to punctuate the speech. These choices allowed myself to read the poem at a single level of volume, falling off of the hard consonant sounds three times, representing the exertion of the captive to make a full word such as God, days, or want, which at least a full bar of spacing succeeded prior to the next