Poetry appreciation using Audacity

I’m very happy to learn about the NAXOS Spoken Words Library which is free to all Hong Kong citizens.  It’s a really great website for facilitating English language teaching and learning, especially reading and listening for language arts.   I wish I had things like this when I was a student and I’m sure I could perform far better than what I did before!… But being a facilitator of students to help them learn well now is not bad either!

This is one of my favourite poems, taken from this library, that I’d like to share with you:

Love’s Philosophy

The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In another’s being mingle –
Why not I with thine?

See, the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower could be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea; –
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?

                                                                  Percy Bysshe Shelley

Photo taken from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/barbaravalerie/3507048572/

Poem taken from:

http://hkpl.naxosspokenwordlibrary.com/mediaplayer/flash/fplayer.asp?br=64&tl=389080

Click here for my recording of this poem: http://ihome.cuhk.edu.hk/~s0803018/lp.wav