Words were spoken long before any alphabet was invented.Feeling into words can mean many things.But if we feel into an actual word,we feel into the sounds in the word when someone uses it.We say sometimes people’s voices have n o affect.Other’s have melodious voices,some speak as if they fire bullets.We might put more of our own feelings into our words or try to hide how we feel.Possibly we pick up much more from each other than we realise.
But how do we put more feeling into a poem and how do we avoid it being a kind of longer cliche? I think the rhythm is one factor.
Sometimes poems are savage like Sylvia Plath’s late ones
.We can imitate various sounds in nature… bird song,machine guns,feet pounding on the ground.Sometimes we plan it or ,more usually, we leave it to happen naturally.If it does not the poem may sound banal or dead even if it is very good technically.
How my heart sings 