I know the activities in the unit will help students develop their own definitions of voice. I intend to give students a working definition of voice before I teach the unit. I will not teach the definition of voice. However, you can arouse students' interest in reading and writing by teaching the concept of voice. You might think that this concept is too difficult for your students. Voice is the writer's lively, powerful words on the page, speaking to the reader to form a relationship. The selected readings, reading aloud, and class discussions helped me create my final definition of voice. Voice is your personality and resonance flowing in print. Voice is the powerful words on a page that form a relationship with you and the writer. Voice is imagery, tone, patterns of sound, rhythm, and diction. What is voice? I developed several definitions of voice, while attending the seminar on "American Voices: Listening to Fiction, Prose, and Poetry." Voice is the person behind the words that speak out to the audience. Hughes's poetic voice creates a lucid and descriptive picture of what can happen, if you don't achieve your dream. The dream could be a goal in life or social equality. Hughes leaves the dream up to the reader. "What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / Like a raisin in the sun? / Or fester like a sore / And then run? / Does it stink like rotten meat?" 1 Hughes portrays several images to the reader that symbolize what will happen to a dream, if it is not pursued. The poetic devices used to describe a "dream deferred" capture the reader's attention.
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In Langston Hughes's poem, "Harlem," imagery and figurative language are used to express his poetic voice. This really happens to you when the words on the page have voice. Imagine hearing a voice on a page speak out to you and grab your attention. Voice in Poetry: Dream a World with Langston Hughes by Octavia Utley Introduction