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.