National Poetry Recitation Competition: Choosing and Annotating a Poem, Exams of Poetry

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Poetry

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National Poetry Recitation Competition

Choosing a poem

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

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Poems about love

One 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 war

At 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

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

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 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

To Helen

Understanding and Annotating

Preparing the Presentation

Presentations in

class

● 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 language, and poise: stage presence, body

2. Voice and articulation rhythm, intonation, and pronunciation: volume, pace,

3. Dramatic appropriateness emotion and message through voice: conveying

4. Evidence of understanding: tone, emphasis, and style to suit poem choices in

5. Overall performance: performance overall success of

6. Accuracy: recitation memorization and word-for-word