Poerty Out Loud- Online

Part One:

1. Carmel Highlands

2. Let it Be Forgotten

3. A Barred Owl

4. a. Fairy-Tale Logic

b.Barter

Part Two:

I liked "Carmel Highlands" because it had a lot of detail and I felt like I really could relate.

I didn't really like "Let it Be Forgotten" because it was too short and for me, it was too literal.

I would really like to study "Carmel Highlands" further. I would choose this one because it has so much detail.

I felt like I connected to this poem because she takes simple things like trees and stones and creates a deeper meaning. I've seen lots of trees and stones and water, because I love to be outside, but I have never thought of those things in the way she describes them.

Part Three:

For the criteria, I think that the easiest part will be to make the meaning stand out- to help the audience understand. The hardest part for me will probably to act confident, and to project. I think that the criteria is clear and that all the things that you need to do make sense for a good poem read out loud.

Part Four:

The first video I watched was Carolyn Rose García reading Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins she was good because it didn't seem like she was reciting the poem, but telling it, and making you understand. It was good, but I didn't really like the poem, and I thought it could have been longer. The Second one that I watched was Frederick Douglass by Robert E. Hayden recited by Shawntay A. Henry, Hers was good because she made me like the poem. She commanded my attention, and made me understand. She also paused in the right places and emphasized the right words so that it sounded really good.Part Five:

For the competition in class, I'm going to do one that I didn't look up, but found in a book. It is called The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy, and I picked it because I liked how it spoke about something that it wasn't literally talking about. I liked the how in it. When I first heard about poetry out-loud, I thought of it as just reciting poems, but now that I have read more about it, it seems like so much more, like the bringing of life to a poem, a different way of thinking about it.

  

Somthing Interesting

One thing that I found interesting from our "Lobsters" discussion in class was that in the second group, it was brought up that when the humans take the lobsters in the poem is like when humans were slaves. When white people used to take slaves, they would take them from their 'habitat' where with their skin color, they blended-in, it worked well for where they were, and took them to a place where their skin color, helpful as it might be where they used to live, stuck out, and made them very noticeable for their difference.

       When I heard this, I was in the outer circle, and thought is was very interesting. When I thought about it more, I realized how much it made sense. The whole time I had been reading Lobsters I had been thinking about it as comparing lobsters to humans in general, but narrowing it down to this part in humanity just fit. The lobsters are described as being not knowing, or being able to change anything, and also as being "made available to the buyer" all of these things could be applied to a slave being taken from their home and being sold, and not being able to do anything about it. Thinking about this more has given me a whole new perspective on this poem and a whole new way to think of it.