Line Breaks

Black Box Poetry

In this episode we discuss line breaks, enjambment, line endings--the typographical feature that alerts readers that they are encountering a poem. We discuss "To a Poor Old Woman" by William Carlos Williams; "What are the Years" by Marianne Moore; and "Dream Song 89" by John Berryman. Williams:(https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems/detail/51653) Moore: (http://scienceplanets-rudi.blogspot.com/2011/08/poem-what-are-years-by-marianne-moore.html) Berryman: (https://allpoetry.com/Dream-Song-89:-Op.-posth.-no.-12) For those of you following along with the links... notice how WCW doesn't read the line breaks in the recording of "To a Poor Old Woman"!