Reading+as+a+Writer

//This is really an extension of the previous exercise, applied to a third-party piece of writing. I've chosen this poem because it is short and the operational concept is fairly easy to infer. But you could use virtually any passage or any artifact in any discipline to engage the students in purposeful observation: What has this writer (historian, artist, scientist, musician, photographer) done? Another way of asking the question: what would you need to do in order to be able to write something like this? The list you come up with can be thought of as a recipe. Followup assignment: go ahead and try baking something using whatever elements of that recipe interest you.//

Vowels
//Christian Bök//

loveless vessels

we vow solo love

we see love solve loss

else we see love sow woe

selves we woo we lose

losses we levee we owe

we sell loose vows

so we love less well

so low so level

wolves evolve

Musical Version of this Song by Ulver:

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What do you notice about the musical version? What happens in your mind as you listen to it? How does that compare to what happens when you read the poem?