Charlotte Smith—Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Fda2RdFb4
This video offers a chance to hear Smith's poem read out loud. Such an approach emphasizes the poem's sound elements, especially Smith's onomatopoetic way of evoking the sound of the ocean and the atmosphere of the night. Hearing the poem out loud also lends drama to its transitions, and can especially offer insight into the way Smith uses traditional elements of the sonnet form (such as rhyme scheme) to stress the poem's argument.
