vachel lindsay helped maintain the tradition of poetry as spoken art in the early twentieth century. robert frost also spoke well, his meter accommodating his natural sentences. poet laureate robert pinsky said, "poetry's proper culmination is to be read aloud by someone's voice, whoever reads a poem aloud becomes the proper medium for the poem." "every speaker intuitively courses through manipulation of sounds, it is almost as though 'we sing to one another all day'." "sound once imagined through the eye gradually gave body to poems through performance, and late in the 1950s reading aloud erupted in the united states."