General Information on Nuvigil and Provigil I think many of us have already experienced conditions of periodic sleepiness during the day……

Anyway, the subject of word sounds, etc. was the very first topic of my very first post. I even attempted an ‘alliterassonant’ sonnet.

I came up with a few ideas as possible substitutes for ’sonicky”. Among them are pictsonic, pictsonorous, and pictsonorant (ance). The rest are on the blog “shakespeareplace” and are linked to the story here. Cheers

Visceral, consonance, physical, et al; Linklater explores it peripherally in this vein.

The subject of language and its visceral connections takes up some space in a supporting essay for Shakespeare production in and through education I wrote a number of years ago. I’ve also had too much experience teaching it not to notice the effect an awareness and employ of the sheer physicality of intensity in word production has on the ability and levels of possible emotional/expressive outlay.

A somewhat basic theoretical notion: Sound is directly related to our need for vocal expression. The roots of the words live also in the belly along with the sounds intertwined with their simultaneous production and expression. Compare normal opposites–simple words like up/down, in/out with the accompanying audible movement the sound makes (this is true for all languages, and commensurate with the possible effects of and reactions to sociological and environmental/geographical stimuli) I think these things are inextricably connected. In short, I think it’s a Primal Response. And the more we do it, the more sophisticated at it we get.
Why else would we be compelled to talk ‘words’, those of us who’ve had a taste of it?
Shakespeare made it fine art of course. This is why I’m such a zealot on the Out Loud thing– An unrelenting demand for Oxygen and Energy can transform an actor (or anyone)–it comes most successfully from ’sounding’ only the deepest of Wells; below the water, a fire burns out of control. We can only access part of it, but that’s all we need, and, all we’re able to productively harness anyway.

Glad you made a ‘return appearance’.

I have no doubt that Shakespeare did it instinctively. I find that classical text has much more visceral energy behind it, unlike today’s nearly-exclusively-intellectual language.

I guess that’s the foundation of most poetry. Shakespeare seems to do it unerringly and possibly instinctively.