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“Poetry Out Loud” Assignment

Due Date: Monday, May 9th

Point Value: 20 points for recitation (rubric below)

RECITATION

Students will recite a selected poem to the class. The poem does not need to be memorized, however if the poem is NOT completely memorized the highest grade a student can earn is a “B.” The student does need to show evidence of multiple rehearsals and familiarity with the poem. The recitation will be judged using this rubric below.

Physical Presence—4 points

Are you poised? Do you make eye contact? Do you appear stiff or nervous? You should “project ease and confidence” by your physical presence.

Voice and Articulation—4 points

This category includes your volume, pace, rhythm, intonation, and pronunciation. Any changes in tone (yelling or getting louder) should be appropriate to convey the meaning of the poem. Your pace should suit the subject matter. You should not mispronounce any words (since you’ve practiced). When poems rhyme or have a regular rhythm, be careful not to become too “singsong”y.

Dramatic Appropriateness—4 points

“Recitation is about conveying a poem’s sense primarily with one’s voice…and is closer to the art of oral interpretation than theatrical performance.” The following mistakes will lead to lower scores in this category: “affected pitch, character voices, singing, inappropriate tone, distracting or excessive gestures, or unnecessary emoting.” In other words, you are not “acting out” the poem; you are interpreting it and helping your audience to understand it better.

Level of Difficulty—4 points

“Every poem is a different combination of content, language, and length.” Shorter poems may contain complex and difficult-to-convey ideas, while long poems may be relatively unsophisticated in their concepts and easier to grasp. Make sure to choose a poem that shows off your interpretive skills effectively.

Evidence of Understanding—4 points

“Students should demonstrate that they know the meaning of every line and every word of the poem.” Make difficult lines clearer. Use correct tone. “The student who understands the poem best will be able to voice it in a way that helps the audience to understand the poem better.”

.**Quoted material is from the official “Poetry Out Loud” judges’ guide.

**Search for a poem at the Poetry Out Loud Website.

- Click the Link on the right in the red box under Poems.

- Click on 25 lines and fewer and peruse the poems at your leisure

- Choose a poem that you understand and like the sound of as you read it aloud. (Make sure you inform Mrs. Hayes, as no 2 people can have the same poem in a class.)

- Define any words that you don’t know the meaning and/or pronunciation. (Don’t assume you know…make sure you know)

- PRACTICE!PRACTICE!PRACTICE!

WRITTEN POETRY ANALYSIS

Students will write an analysis of their selected poem.

Rough Draft Due Date: (10 points) Wednesday, May 4th

Final Draft (20 points) Due Date: Monday, May 9th

Requirements: 2 paragraphs

250-500 words

Typed, double-spaced, standard margins, 12-pt print font

This paper is to present YOUR explanations and understanding of the poem and YOUR connection to it. THIS IS NOT A RESEARCH PAPER. USE LIMITED OUTSIDE SOURCES, EITHER IN PREPARING TO WRITE OR IN THE PROCESS OF ACTUALLY WRITING YOUR ANALYSIS. In other words, it is NOT okay to just go online to “read about” your poem to “help you understand it.” I want to know YOUR understanding of the poem.

Paragraph One: Explanation and Understanding

• Begin by naming the title, in quotation marks, and the author of the poem

Then, include answers to these questions if they apply to your poem. If a question doesn’t apply, then skip it. Don’t take up space listing literary devices your poem doesn’t include; simply talk about what it does include.

• How many lines does the poem contain?

• Does it have a rhyme scheme?

• Who is the speaker in the poem?

• What is going on in the poem? Is the speaker telling a story (narrative poem) or sharing feelings (lyric poem)?

• What is the poem’s theme or message?

• What is the poem’s tone? What specific words (diction) does the poet use to give the poem this tone?

• Does the poem contain figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification)? If so, how does it add to the poem’s meaning?

• Does the poem use sound devices (alliteration, onomatopoeia, internal rhyme)? If so, how does it add to the poem’s meaning?

• How does the title of the poem relate its meaning?

• Are there any symbols or allusions? If so, how do they add to the meaning?

Paragraph Two: Your Connection

Simply put, why do you find this poem interesting? Here are questions you can ask yourself (and answer in your paper).

• Does the poem’s theme relate to something you’ve thought a lot about?

• Does the poem describe an experience similar to an experience you’ve had or feelings similar to feelings you’ve had?

• Did the poem move you in some way?

• Does the poem pose a question you find interesting in some way?

• Do you agree (or disagree) with the poem’s point for some reason?

Please attach a copy of the poem to the BACK of your analysis. Please don’t just print the entire page right off the Poetry Out Loud website. Copy and paste it into a separate word document.

Poem and author are named at the beginning of the paper 1 point ____

Poem title is properly punctuated 1 point ____

Paper is formatted as instructed—

Your name, title, two paragraphs, double-spaced, typed,

250 words minimum, poem attached to the back 1 point ____

Paragraph one contains a sufficient number of specific references

to the poem 3 points ____

Paragraph two adequately explains your connection to the poem 3 points ____

Paper contains few errors in grammar, spelling, or usage 1 point ____

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A Fixed Idea By Amy Lowell

A Hymn to God the Father By John Donne

A narrow Fellow in the Grass By Emily Dickinson

A Noiseless Patient Spider By Walt Whitman

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Actaeon By A.E. Stallings

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Altruism By Molly Peacock

America By Claude McKay

Amor Mundi By Christina Rossetti

Anecdote of the Jar By Wallace Stevens

Anne Rutledge By Edgar Lee Masters

Another Feeling By Ruth Stone

Anthem for Doomed Youth By Wilfred Owen

Ars Poetica By Archibald MacLeish

As Kingfishers Catch Fire By Gerard Manley Hopkins

At Cross Purposes By Samuel Menashe

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Broken Promises By David Kirby

Buick By Karl Jay Shapiro

Cabezón By Amy Beeder

Carmel Highlands By Janet Loxley Lewis

Carmel Point By Robinson Jeffers

Catch a Little Rhyme By Eve Merriam

Childhood By Margaret Walker

Childhood's Retreat By Robert Duncan

Chord By Stuart Dybek

Chorus Sacerdotum By Baron Brooke Fulke Greville

Coda By Basil Bunting

Cold Blooded Creatures By Elinor Wylie

Come into Animal Presence By Denise Levertov

Concord Hymn By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Contraction By Ravi Shankar

Cool Tombs By Carl Sandburg

Crossing the Bar By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Danse Russe By William Carlos Williams

Deliberate By Amy Uyematsu

Difference By Stephen Vincent Benét

Dirge Without Music By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Discrimination By Kenneth Rexroth

Do Not! By Stevie Smith

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Dreamers By Siegfried Sassoon

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Eagle Plain By Robert Francis

Eagle Poem By Joy Harjo

Early Affection By George Moses Horton

Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest By B. H. Fairchild

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Eating Together By Li-Young Lee

Echo By Daryl Hine

Emplumada By Lorna Dee Cervantes

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Epilogue By Robert Lowell

Epitaph By Katherine Philips

Ex Machina By Linda Gregerson

Experience By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fairy-tale Logic By A.E. Stallings

Faith By David Baker

Famous By Naomi Shihab Nye

Fever By Hailey Leithauser

“Find Work” By Rhina P. Espaillat

Fire and Ice By Robert Frost

First Poem for You By Kim Addonizio

Fishing By A.E. Stallings

Flaxman By Margaret Fuller

Flirtation By Rita Dove

Flood: Years of Solitude By Dionisio D. Martinez

Follow Thy Fair Sun By Thomas Campion

Football By Louis Jenkins

For Allen Ginsberg By X J Kennedy

For My Contemporaries By J. V. Cunningham

For My Daughter By Weldon Kees

Fortuna By Thomas Carlyle

Full Moon By Elinor Wylie

Garden By H. D.

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God's Grandeur By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Golden Retrievals By Mark Doty

Good People By W. S. Merwin

Grief By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hap By Thomas Hardy

Harp Song of the Dane Women By Rudyard Kipling

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Helen By H. D.

Her Kind By Anne Sexton

Here By Joshua Mehigan

Here Is an Ear Hear By Victor Hernández Cruz

History Lesson By Natasha Trethewey

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Hush By David St. John

I Am Learning To Abandon the World By Linda Pastan

I Am the People, The Mob By Carl Sandburg

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I Close My Eyes By David Ignatow

I Dreamed That I Was Old By Stanley J. Kunitz

I felt a Funeral in my Brain By Emily Dickinson

I Hear America Singing By Walt Whitman

I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – (591) By Emily Dickinson

I think I should have loved you presently By Edna St. Vincent Millay

I, Too By Langston Hughes

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud By William Wordsworth

Ice By Gail Mazur

Idea LXI By Michael Drayton

Immortal Autumn By Archibald MacLeish

Immortal Sails By Alfred Noyes

In By Andrew Hudgins

In a London Drawingroom By George Eliot

in Just- By E. E. Cummings

In My Craft or Sullen Art By Dylan Thomas

In Praise of My Bed By Meredith Holmes

In Praise of Pain By Heather McHugh

In the Desert By Stephen Crane

Incident By Countee Cullen

Inside Out By Diane Wakoski

Insomnia By Dana Gioia

Insomnia By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Introduction to the Songs of Innocence By William Blake

Invictus By William Ernest Henley

Invitation to Love By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Isla By Virgil Suárez

It Couldn't Be Done By Edgar Albert Guest

It sifts from Leaden Sieves By Emily Dickinson

It was not death, for I stood up By Emily Dickinson

It would be neat if with the New Year By Jimmy Santiago Baca

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['Joy of my life, full oft for loving you'] By Edmund Spenser

Keeping Things Whole By Mark Strand

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La Figlia che Piange By T. S. Eliot

Late Echo By John Ashbery

Layabout By John Brehm

Learning to Love America By Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

Learning to Swim By Bob Hicok

Leda and the Swan By William Butler Yeats

Let Evening Come By Jane Kenyon

Let It Be Forgotten By Sara Teasdale

Let the Light Enter By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Life By Edith Wharton

Life in a Love By Robert Browning

Light Shining out of Darkness By William Cowper

Like Rousseau By Amiri Baraka

Lincoln By Vachel Lindsay

Lissadell By Wendy Cope

Listening By Jean Valentine

London By William Blake

Love (III) By George Herbert

Love Armed By Aphra Behn

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Love Lives beyond the Tomb By John Clare

Lucinda Matlock By Edgar Lee Masters

Medusa By Louise Bogan

Mezzo Cammin By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mingus at the Showplace By William Matthews

Mrs. Adam By Kathleen Norris

Mrs. Kessler By Edgar Lee Masters

Much Madness is divinest Sense — By Emily Dickinson

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Nineteen-Fourteen: The Soldier By Rupert Brooke

No Moon Floods the Memory of That Night By Etheridge Knight

Nocturne By Li-Young Lee

Not Waving but Drowning By Stevie Smith

November Cotton Flower By Jean Toomer

Nude Descending a Staircase By X J Kennedy

Nurture By Maxine W. Kumin

Ode on Solitude By Alexander Pope

Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow By Robert Duncan

['Often rebuked, yet always back returning'] By Emily Jane Brontë

“oh antic God” By Lucille Clifton

Oh, Hope! thou soother sweet of human woes By Charlotte Smith

Old Ironsides By Oliver Wendell Holmes

On An Unsociable Family By Elizabeth Hands

On Inhabiting an Orange By Josephine Miles

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On the Death of Richard West By Thomas Gray

On the Lawn at the Villa By Louis Simpson

On Virtue By Phillis Wheatley

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Ox Cart Man By Donald Hall

Ozymandias By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Part for the Whole By Robert Francis

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Pleasures By Denise Levertov

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Prayer for My Father By Robert Bly

Pride By Yusef Komunyakaa

Prison Song By Alan Dugan

Queen-Anne's Lace By William Carlos Williams

Recuerdo By Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Reverie in Open Air By Rita Dove

Richard Cory By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Riprap By Gary Snyder

Rock and Hawk By Robinson Jeffers

Romance By Claude McKay

Rondeau By Leigh Hunt

Russell Market By Maurya Simon

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Sadie and Maud By Gwendolyn Brooks

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Saint Francis and the Sow By Galway Kinnell

Saturday's Child By Countee Cullen

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Self-Portrait By Robert Creeley

Shawl By Albert Goldbarth

She Walks in Beauty By Lord Byron

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Shine, Perishing Republic By Robinson Jeffers

Sign By George Starbuck

Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt By David Bottoms

Silence By Thomas Hood

Since There Is No Escape By Sara Teasdale

Snowflake By William Baer

Snowy Owl Near Ocean Shores By Duane Niatum

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Solitude By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Somewhere to Paris By Richard Blanco

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Song After Campion By Robert Fitzgerald

Song to Celia By Ben Jonson

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Sonnet XV: When I Consider everything that Grows By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XXIII: Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint By John Milton

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Spring and Fall By Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost

Sugar Dada By J. Allyn Rosser

Summer at North Farm By Stephen Kuusisto

Susie Asado By Gertrude Stein

Testimonial By Rita Dove

The Affliction of Richard By Robert Bridges

The Albatross By Kate Bass

The Alphabet By Karl Jay Shapiro

The American Soldier By Philip Morin Freneau

The Animals By Josephine Jacobsen

The Arrow and the Song By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Author to Her Book By Anne Bradstreet

The Birth of John Henry By Melvin B. Tolson

The Bloody Sire By Robinson Jeffers

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The Clouded Morning By Jones Very

The Coming of the Plague By Weldon Kees

The Cross of Snow By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Daring One By Edwin Markham

The Days Gone By By James Whitcomb Riley

The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee By N. Scott Momaday

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The Donkey By G. K. Chesterton

The Emperor of Ice-Cream By Wallace Stevens

The Fair Singer By Andrew Marvell

The Faithful By Jane Cooper

The Film By Kate Northrop

The Goddess Who Created This Passing World By Alice Notley

The Good-Morrow By John Donne

The Hill By Joshua Mehigan

The Idler By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

The Illiterate By William Meredith

The Lake Isle of Innisfree By William Butler Yeats

The Lamb By Linda Gregg

The Last Laugh By Wilfred Owen

The Luggage By Constance Urdang

The Maldive Shark By Herman Melville

The Man He Killed By Thomas Hardy

The Man with Night Sweats By Thom Gunn

The Metal and the Flower By P. K. Page

The Negro Speaks of Rivers By Langston Hughes

The Net By Babette Deutsch

The New Colossus By Emma Lazarus

The New Decalogue By Ambrose Bierce

The Night of the Shirts By W. S. Merwin

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd By Sir Walter Ralegh

The Obligation To Be Happy By Linda Pastan

The Oldest Living Thing in L.A. By Larry Levis

The Other Side of This World By Calvin Forbes

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love By Christopher Marlowe

The People, Yes By Carl Sandburg

The Pilgrim By John Bunyan

The Poet By Yone Noguchi

The Princess: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Pulley By George Herbert

The River Now By Richard F. Hugo

The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost

The Rose By Jean Valentine

The Second Coming By William Butler Yeats

The Secret Garden By Rita Dove

The Snow Is Deep on the Ground By Kenneth Patchen

The Snow Man By Wallace Stevens

The Speakers By Weldon Kees

The Star By Ann Taylor

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Treasure By Robinson Jeffers

The Tyger By William Blake

The Vacuum By Howard Nemerov

The War in the Air By Howard Nemerov

The Well Rising By William E. Stafford

The White City By Claude McKay

The Windhover By Gerard Manley Hopkins

The World Is Too Much With Us By William Wordsworth

Their Bodies By David Wagoner

There's been a Death, in the Opposite House By Emily Dickinson

These Poems, She Said By Robert Bringhurst

They Flee From Me By Sir Thomas Wyatt

Those Winter Sundays By Robert E. Hayden

Thou Art My Lute By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Thoughts in a Zoo By Countee Cullen

Time Does Not Bring Relief: You All Have Lied By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Time of the Missile By George Oppen

To — By Sarah Helen Whitman

To David, About His Education By Howard Nemerov

To Fashion By Elizabeth Moody

To Helen By Edgar Allan Poe

To my Dear and Loving Husband By Anne Bradstreet

To the Desert By Benjamin Alire Sáenz

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham By John Dryden

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time By Robert Herrick

To the Western World By Louis Simpson

Traveling through the Dark By William E. Stafford

Trees By Joyce Kilmer

Truth Serum By Naomi Shihab Nye

Under the Vulture-Tree By David Bottoms

Unholy Sonnet 1 By Mark Jarman

Up-Hill By Christina Rossetti

Video Blues By Mary Jo Salter

Waking from Sleep By Robert Bly

War Widow By Chris Abani

Ways of Talking By Ha Jin

Weighing In By Rhina P. Espaillat

[What horror to awake at night] By Lorine Niedecker

What Kind of Times Are These By Adrienne Rich

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why By Edna St. Vincent Millay

When All My Five and Country Senses See By Dylan Thomas

When I Consider How my Light is Spent By John Milton

When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be By John Keats

When I Was Fair and Young By Queen Elizabeth I

When You Are Old By William Butler Yeats

Women By Louise Bogan

Words By Barbara Guest

Yet Do I Marvel By Countee Cullen

You charm'd me not with that fair face By John Dryden

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