Not to get too far afield, but I would put Ginsberg on the same list. Howl is a great epic poem, until you hear it screamed out loud over a crowd by someone with an attention disorder. Then it's transcendental.

To get even further removed, if you struggled with the translation of The Canterbury Tales, read the Middle English translation, but read it out loud at 80-120 beats a minute. The words you don't know suddenly become clear, and the entire thing makes sense.

I find it fascinating that some works are seemingly intended to be read out loud and 'performed', but we force people to hear it in their internal voice alone. And then we wonder why folks hate 'classics' of literature or poetry.

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