Seniors Creative Writing Blog #4: Understanding Your "Poetry Out Loud" (response due Wednesday, Oct. 28)

To perform a proper oral interpretation of your poem you must fully understand it: the poet's choices of structure, genre (narrative or lyric, on a simple level; on a more specific--sonnet, ode, ballad, villanelle, etc. ), rhyme scheme, meter, sounds, images, poetic figures of speech, symbols,tones, etc.

Write a (200 word or more) paragraph on why you chose your poem, what it means (to you?), and just as importantly, "how" it means. The "how" refers to the poet's artistic choices that developed and complimented the meaning of the poem. Post your paragraph here at the blog.

Read the archives from November 2014 to read what poems some students in the class of 2015 chose to write about and recite for Poetry Out Loud.