What does Lacey mean by a Freedom of listening? What do you hear in the cadences and rhythms of these two poems?

According to Lacey, the freedom of listening refers to a normative ideal that encompasses both a responsibility and a right to listen. The author means the term to be understood as distinct from the freedom to listen. It is a first order right based on the principle of liberty that is distinct from the freedom to listen, a second order right based on the principle of equality. The term is best understood in terms of a right of access to and participation in public debate, is, of course, integral to any practical definition of democracy, since the channels of public communication ought to be accessible to all members of the public. Lastly, the author further states that when the freedom to listen is understood only as a right and not also as a responsibility, it is a poorer guarantor of plurality, for listener might decide to exercise their right to listen only to those speakers whose opinions resonate with their own.

The cadences and rhythms of these two poems show the freedom of expression that is not only confined to a dialogic mode, but presupposes an audience, and implicitly, and audience with active choices and with active responsibilities. When reading the two poems, I could hear and feel the rising and falling of voice to show that the poet has a good freedom of expression of ideas to capture the attention of the listeners.

 
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