Document Type
Journal Article
Department/Unit
Department of English Language and Literature
Language
English
Abstract
Poetry is often, even if not always, thought of
as a work to be read audibly. Literary analyses of each poem and biographical information of the poet aim at providing deeper understanding, but few students of literature actually attend seriously to the poet’s phonology. By first providing an analysis of the tonality Hong Kong English with side view glances to Singapore, this paper provides arguments for how much more exciting poetry can be not just for new Englishes, but for all languages in today’s world where so many languages and cultures are in contact.
Keywords
phonology, poetry, English, Hong Kong, 1. An Inspiration from History
Publication Date
2016
Source Publication Title
GSTF Journal on Education
Volume
3
Issue
2
Start Page
92
End Page
103
Publisher
Global Science & Technology Forum
Peer Reviewed
1
Copyright
This article is under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) licence
DOI
10.5176/2345-7163_3.2.88
Link to Publisher's Edition
http://dl6.globalstf.org/index.php/jed/article/view/1674/1695
ISSN (print)
23457163
APA Citation
Wee, L., & Liu, Y. (2016). Hearing the inner voices of Asian English poets. GSTF Journal on Education, 3 (2), 92-103. https://doi.org/10.5176/2345-7163_3.2.88