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Poetry Outloud
National Poetry Recitation Competition
Choosing a poem
Step 1: choosing a poem
Due Friday 10/27
Reserve your poem by handwriting it and turning in to Ms. K-V
● Must come from Poetry Outloud's website
● Must be AT LEAST 14 lines long.● No more than 2 people per class can
choose the same poem. First come first served.
● Choose a poem that – in some way – speaks to you. ○ Connects with your values,
purpose, and/or understanding of the world.
○ Pushes you to think critically beyond your current understanding of the world.
● Choose a poem you understand and will be able to read fluently.
● Choose a poem that is NOT one from the next slide.
Banned Poems
These are poems Ms. Mathews is tired of hearing over and over and over again.
● “Keeping Things Whole” by Mark Strand
● “One Perfect Rose” by Dorothy Parker● “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns ● “Song of the Powers” by David Mason● “Catch a Little Rhyme” by Eve Merriam ● “Chord” by Stuart Dybek ● “The Orange” by Wendy Cope ● “The Star” by Ann Taylor● “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost ● “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer● “Harlem” by Langston Hughes ● “We Wear the Mask” by P. Dunbar● “I, Too” by Langston Hughes ● “The Road Less Taken” by Robert Frost● “Lincoln” by Vachel Linsay● “The Arrow and the Song” by H. L. Parker ● “At Cross Purposes” by Robert Burns
Check out these awesome poets:
Claude McKay:
Langston Hughes:
Maya Angelou:
Emily Dickinson:
Gwendolyn Brooks:
Theodore Roethke:
Edgar Albert Guest:
Howard Nemerov
My Great great great grandma's poem!
Poems about loveOne Hundred Love Sonnets XVII
Tamer and Hawk
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Song in a Minor Key
April Love
I Am Offering this Poem
(i carry your heart with me(i care it in]
In Love, His Grammar Grew
The Sorrow of True Love
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Poems about warAt the Vietnam Memorial
The War in the Air
War Widow
The Soldier
The Glories of Our Blood and State
After the War
The Man He Killed
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Beautiful Wreckage
Break of Day in the Trenches
In Flanders Fields
The Last Laugh
Poems about nature
Dover Beach
Ant
At Noon
August 12 in the Nebraska Sandhills watching the Perseid Meteor Shower
The Barnacle
A Barred Owl
The Bear
Break, Break, Break
Clear Night
The Clouded Morning
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Meeting at Night
Across the Bay
300 Goats
African American poetry
Claude McKay,
Langston Hughes,
Maya Angelou
Hip Hop Ghazal
American Smooth
Black Boys Play the Classics
BLK History Month
Grandfather
Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing
Passing
The Paradox
Latin@ or Hispanic poetry
El Olvido
Spanglish
Bent to the Earth
Curandera
Funny/Humorous poems
Love Song
Cartoon Physics, part 1
End of Days Advice from an Ex-Zombie
Golden Retrieval
In Praise of my Bed
Megan Married Herself
Dark Poems: death, abuse, etc.
All Hallow's Eve
My Papa's Waltz
Good People
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
A Poison Tree
All This and More
Diameter
[I married]
In the Desert
The Kiss
Abandoned Farmhouse
The Mower
Mad Song
Poems about sports Always Something more Beautiful
Holding Court
Wide Receiver
Analysis of Baseball
Clothespins
Football
Makin' Jump Shots
Sign for my Father, Who Stressed the Bunt
Poems about life, advice, etc.
Barber
It Couldn't Be Done
Please Don't
Life Cycle of a Common Man
Written by Himself
Ode
Concord Hymn
From Blossoms
Invictus
The Pull Toy
Sonnet 91
Poems about the world, different cultures, history/mythology
Her Head Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
Echo
Helen
Land
Here
Medusa
The Luggage
The New Colossus
Ozymandias
Pilgrims
Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Reservation
To Helen
Understanding and Annotating
Step 2: Annotate your poem
Due 11/2
In order to recite your poem accurately and effectively, you need to be able to understand it!
Fully annotate the poem for the following:1. Unknown/important words:
meaning and pronunciation2. Main idea of each stanza/chunk.
Summarize what the whole poem is about.
3. Imagery, repetition, and figurative language--what is the meaning behind it?
4. Author’s background and historical context
5. Mark any pauses on your poem: you do not always need to pause at the line break
Preparing the Presentation
Presentations in class11/6-11/9
● All students must participate● Lose points if not ready on day
you are called to go● Lose points if not memorized
Grading criteria:1. Physical presence: stage presence, body
language, and poise2. Voice and articulation: volume, pace,
rhythm, intonation, and pronunciation3. Dramatic appropriateness: conveying
emotion and message through voice4. Evidence of understanding: choices in
tone, emphasis, and style to suit poem5. Overall performance: overall success of
performance6. Accuracy: memorization and word-for-word
recitation
Tips for Memorization
➢ Re-write the poem by hand, each time try to write more than before without looking at the original.
➢ Read the poem aloud several times per day, including before you go to sleep and after you wake up.
➢ Carry a copy of the poem with you throughout the day and look at it often.
➢ Listen to it.
Tips for presentation
➢ Watch several of the model POL presentations online (Poetry Out Loud website or Youtube)
➢ Practice reciting the poem to your friends/family or while looking into a mirror. ○ Make sure your facial
expression and movements reflect the emotion of the poem
➢ Practice clearly introducing the poem: Title and Author.