“Re-Versing John Donne”
Photograph by John Diamond, M.D.
Take these lines by John Donne:
I am a little world made cunningly
Of elements and an angelic sprite.
And then consider how much easier they flow if they are re-versed like this:
I am a little world,
made cunningly of elements,
and an angelic sprite.
Re-versing is so often all that is needed to raise our Life Energy when reading many poets. Especially when reading aloud, as poetry deserves.
