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单词 performance poetry
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Definition of performance poetry in English:

performance poetry

noun
mass noun
  • A form of poetry intended to be performed as a dramatic monologue or exchange and frequently involving improvisation.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I don't like straightforward confessional poetry, if there's such a thing, for that reason, or straightforward performance poetry either.
    • In the world of performance poetry it is not often that a poetry competition comes along that can earn a performer $2000 for a poem.
    • The phrase ‘music-based literary form’ helps define what today is called spoken word / performance poetry.
    • Besides talks by authors, the festival launched with the traditional celebrations at dawn on May Day included workshops, children's events and performance poetry.
    • What about the slam poet who uses performance poetry to raise awareness of her marginalised position in society, perhaps on behalf of others in the same position?
    • When examining the linguistic characteristics of West Indian poetry, particularly oral or performance poetry, it is impossible to separate language from rhythm.
    • In the underground cellar bars and cafes of San Francisco, performance poetry was blending the rhyme and rhythm of the spoken word with free jazz.
    • Apparently slam poetry is competitive performance poetry with bits of hip-hop and stand-up thrown in for good measure.
    • Often with an anti-establishment edge, performance poetry covers a wide range of poetic activity, from topical satire and burlesque to ranting and agitprop, including avant-garde sound poetry and mixings of word and music.
    • Given the endurance of bush poetry festivals, and the popularity of contemporary performance poetry in inner-city venues, clearly there is still an audience willing to be moved by spoken verse, but it's very much a minority taste.
    • I also suspect devotees are anticipating the day she abandons all formality and just does bitter, manic, 1980s performance poetry.
    • It goes right back to the '60s when I was in college, back when the whole American culture was alive with a whole new kind of radical performance poetry.
    • She hates the false distinction between poetry and performance poetry.
    • He also says, as others have said, that performance poetry returns the art to its oral beginnings.
    • Such distinctions of geography and genre are far from academic, since one of the first things to confront in writing about performance poetry is its internal diversity.
    • Though its historical origins are in literary poetry, performance poetry is now a different art, and its fundamental irreconcilability with literary poetry becomes more apparent each year.
    • As a master of oral performance poetry this piece would be extremely effective performed with drums.
    • In terms of cultural importance, I am concerned with the ‘anything goes’ attitude in performance poetry.
    • ‘The point is that those who have done the most to popularize performance poetry are not poets in the main,’ he says.
    • She plans to encourage prisoners and staff to attend writers' workshops and drop-in sessions to give them an opportunity to discuss each other's work and study performance poetry.

Derivatives

  • performance poet

  • noun
    • A person who composes and performs poetry as a dramatic monologue or exchange, often involving improvisation.

      she tours as a performance poet
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But on the Gold Coast I met an extraordinary creature: a performance poet.
      • As he shared his poetry and his life with us, his passion for kung fu and football, Vegan food and banknotes, we found ourselves in tears from total identification with this dreadlocked, charismatic performance poet.
      • Making poetry my art and my means of financial survival I was probably the first Australian full-time professional performance poet with a wife, family and mortgage.
 
 

Definition of performance poetry in US English:

performance poetry

noun
  • A form of poetry intended to be performed as a dramatic monologue or exchange and frequently involving improvisation.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It goes right back to the '60s when I was in college, back when the whole American culture was alive with a whole new kind of radical performance poetry.
    • Given the endurance of bush poetry festivals, and the popularity of contemporary performance poetry in inner-city venues, clearly there is still an audience willing to be moved by spoken verse, but it's very much a minority taste.
    • Such distinctions of geography and genre are far from academic, since one of the first things to confront in writing about performance poetry is its internal diversity.
    • In terms of cultural importance, I am concerned with the ‘anything goes’ attitude in performance poetry.
    • As a master of oral performance poetry this piece would be extremely effective performed with drums.
    • He also says, as others have said, that performance poetry returns the art to its oral beginnings.
    • ‘The point is that those who have done the most to popularize performance poetry are not poets in the main,’ he says.
    • I also suspect devotees are anticipating the day she abandons all formality and just does bitter, manic, 1980s performance poetry.
    • Though its historical origins are in literary poetry, performance poetry is now a different art, and its fundamental irreconcilability with literary poetry becomes more apparent each year.
    • She plans to encourage prisoners and staff to attend writers' workshops and drop-in sessions to give them an opportunity to discuss each other's work and study performance poetry.
    • When examining the linguistic characteristics of West Indian poetry, particularly oral or performance poetry, it is impossible to separate language from rhythm.
    • What about the slam poet who uses performance poetry to raise awareness of her marginalised position in society, perhaps on behalf of others in the same position?
    • Besides talks by authors, the festival launched with the traditional celebrations at dawn on May Day included workshops, children's events and performance poetry.
    • She hates the false distinction between poetry and performance poetry.
    • Often with an anti-establishment edge, performance poetry covers a wide range of poetic activity, from topical satire and burlesque to ranting and agitprop, including avant-garde sound poetry and mixings of word and music.
    • The phrase ‘music-based literary form’ helps define what today is called spoken word / performance poetry.
    • I don't like straightforward confessional poetry, if there's such a thing, for that reason, or straightforward performance poetry either.
    • In the underground cellar bars and cafes of San Francisco, performance poetry was blending the rhyme and rhythm of the spoken word with free jazz.
    • In the world of performance poetry it is not often that a poetry competition comes along that can earn a performer $2000 for a poem.
    • Apparently slam poetry is competitive performance poetry with bits of hip-hop and stand-up thrown in for good measure.
 
 
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