Part one:
1. Difference
2.The Vacuum
3.A Blessing
4. Echo; Faith
Part two:
1. Of the five poems above I really liked Echo the most. It reminded me of a Greek myth that I read in sixth grade. It was about how Echos came to be and I'm pretty sure that's what the point of writing the poem. To write about how Echo must feel since she can't talk.
2.I didn't like the Difference poem however. It was a good poem but it was kind of confusing. I think that if I read it a bit more I'll understand it more.
3. Echo
4.My favorite Greek myth was the myth about Echo and Narcissus and that's what the poem is about. I think that's why I connected with it better.
Part three: 1. Physical presence and evidence of understanding will probably be the easiest thing for me to do to help me score higher. I can look confident and stand up straight and put a little more emphasis on the important parts of the poem that have a deeper meaning.
2. I think that voice and articulation and dramatic appropriateness will probably be my weak points because I get nervous when speaking or standing up in front of a lot of people and tend to talk faster and while I will be reciting my poem I'll probably be thinking more about the poem and my posture and eye contact that I'll forget about being more dramatic.
Part Four: 1.The first poem recitation that I watched was a poem called
Writ on the Steps of Puerto Rican Harlem by Gregory Corso. What makes this recitation good is how the person stood up straight, made good eye contact with the audience, used actions according to what he had said, and spoke very clearly where it wasn't too fast or too slow.
2. The second poem that I watched was called
Forgetfulness by Billy Collins. What made this session of recitation good was how the person's voice added to the feeling of the poem. His posture also added to the way the poem seemed dark and satirical at the same time.
Part Five: I 'm thinking that the poem will definitely be sort of easy going during sessions and tense in between. The people that I've seen reciting are always very calm and that makes them seem happy to be up there. However, I'm pretty sure that when there's not anyone on the stage there will be a lot of people practicing and getting nervous. I think I'll do good enough to get a decent grade but I'm not too sure about getting anywhere past the first stage. I'm going to memorize the poem called,
Echo by Daryl Hines. If you are wondering why I chose it, you can look at a previous part of this post. I think that the poetry out loud website was a good creation. It helps struggling people involved with poetry to see what they need to improve on when reciting, it gives insight on what a good recitation is like and it has a large variety of poems for people to choose from.
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