what's the deal with fields and shields?

thanks for entering this wheel of feels!

dear hearers and seers and other perceivers,

welcome to now
are you doing, comma, how?

1) now hear¹ this:

i'd like to say
that
an audience you can't hear²
is
a vidience
but
i don't know if anyone will listen.

2) now see this:

"what was their opening line?"
-- a comedian inquiring about a baby's first words³

3) now feel this:

do you call it
a force FIE…