signmetaphor | BSL poem "Red and Green" by Donna Williams @signmetaphor | Uploaded May 2015 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
Deaf poet Donna Williams's signed poem (in British Sign Language) "Red and Green" tells a story of a title fight between a cold virus and the poet’s immune system. It contains examples of anthropomorphism. It was performed at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, in March 2011
The poems in this channel are part of the collection made as the University of Bristol Sign Language Poetry Anthology with the aim to study metaphor in sign language poetry. The poem is discussed in the book Introducing sign language literature folklore and creativity, by Rachel Sutton-Spence and Michiko Kaneko, published by Palgrave press.
Deaf poet Donna Williams's signed poem (in British Sign Language) "Red and Green" tells a story of a title fight between a cold virus and the poet’s immune system. It contains examples of anthropomorphism. It was performed at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, in March 2011
The poems in this channel are part of the collection made as the University of Bristol Sign Language Poetry Anthology with the aim to study metaphor in sign language poetry. The poem is discussed in the book Introducing sign language literature folklore and creativity, by Rachel Sutton-Spence and Michiko Kaneko, published by Palgrave press.
