· British poet Alice Oswald begins her book-length poem Dart by asserting this comparison between the poet’s voice and the river’s. She asserts that the people living along the Dart who lend their speech to the book’s personas function as “life-models from which to sketch out a series of characters—linking their voices into a sound-map of the river, a songline from the source to the sea Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Alice Oswald's Dart is a fascinating page single poem that acts as both a extended "found poem" blending the voices of the people around the River Dart in Devon, England. Pulled from her interviews, the voices are woven together in verse without clear delineation, and thus the poem also functions as a oral history of the River but it is also filled with mythic references and a deeper poetic dimension.4/5. Alice Oswald's Dart is a fascinating page single poem that acts as both a extended "found poem" blending the voices of the people around the River Dart in Devon, England. Pulled from her interviews, the voices are woven together in verse without clear delineation, and thus the poem also functions as a oral history of the River but it is also filled with mythic references and a deeper poetic dimension/5(93).
Dart by Alice Oswald Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they. Alice Oswald's Dart and Ted Hughes' Go Fishing are two poems about nature and water, but about experience as well. Their relation is then based on these concepts which can both be seen as an endless source of life, of energy. But these poems do also mention roots and identity, time passing, discovery, evolution, learning, and so much more. Dart by Oswald, Alice Seller Bonita Condition Good ISBN Item Price $ Show Details. Description: Audio CD. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.
Posted on Febru. by Judy. Following the journey of the river Dart from its source to the sea, Alice Oswald has woven a work of meandering voices that conjures up every person the water encounters on its way. Using three-years worth of recorded conversations as her starting point, Alice has summoned up the river’s many aspects and visitors, from an elderly hiker carrying “tent, torch, chocolate, not much else” to a naturalist “hiding in red-brown grass all different. Dart opens with a scene of primal beginnings. An old man of the river lumbers into the poem like Edward Thomas's Lob, and Oswald's constantly shifting metrics take one of their sudden forward. Alice Oswald made her reputation with Dart, a sinuous, book-length poem that charted the Devon river from source to sea. The winner of the TS Eliot Prize, the poem was a love song to the Dart, a magnificent symphony of watery voices, from fishermen and canoeists to the river itself and its cargo of drowned.
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