My Poem

       Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost, is a very complex poem with more than one meaning to it.  For example, "he" admires the snow more than anything, and is willing to even die in it, or at least thats what i inferred from it.  I also noticed that he could be even a runaway, maybe from his hometown, noticing his neighbor's farmland and sneaking through it.  His little horse shows that he has been traveling for quite some time and is not even close to his destination.

        To me, this poem was at first, was something easy to memorize, but as I read the poem over and over and over, I started catching things I didn't quite catch before, understanding things I didn't quite understand before, and I never would have learned that much about poems if it weren't for Poetry Out Loud.

Urgent Extra Credit Blog

       This time around, my five part paragraph was improved in many different ways.  For example, my rambling on I tend to do that I pointed out in the five part paragraph critique blog is gone and I got rid of most of the unnecessary things I tend to say and made my paragraph not only more understandable, but much better too.  My punctuation greatly improved too this time.  I eliminated a lot of the red lines underneath words so the finished product was more legible.  My quote embedding felt better for me too.  I almost forgot to embed the quotes tonight but this blog reminded me and saved me from getting a bad grade.

       I think my paragraph is a lot better than its predecessor and I know people will enjoy it more than my first because it has been improved to the brink of perfection.(JK)
Sean

Poetry Out Loud

 Part One:                                                
1. Snowflake
2. Not Waving But Drowning
3. Dog
4. Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening & Nude Descending A Staircase
Part Two:
I enjoyed Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening because its a catchy poem and an easy one to memorize.  I didn't like Nude Descending A Staircase because I thought it was creepy and disturbing that an old man wrote it and it was just weird.  I would like to continue studying Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening because I think it may have more meaning to it than it appears.  I connected with this poem because I've been lost in the woods before when It's snowy and I remember being very cold.
Part Three:
I think I will do well on accuracy and voice and articulation because I can talk loud enough and my memory is good enough where I'll be able to pronounce the words correctly.  I don't think I'll do so well on physical presence and dramatic appropriateness because I'm not very good at physically showing that I know the poem and I'm not very dramatic at saying things because I'm not a very dramatic person.
Part Four:
I watched Stanley Andrew Jackson for my first video and he did an excellent job of dramatically portraying his knowledge of the poem.  For my second video I chose Shawntay A. Henry did a great job of articulating and physically showing her knowledge of the poem.
Part Five:
I think Poetry Out Loud is a great idea for kids to memorize poems for an educational/competition like purpose.  I think the competition will be a little scary at first, but once you get up there, you'll do better than you thought.  I think I'll do okay.  I'm going to memorize Dog, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, because it'll be a challenge to memorize and I need a challenge.  I thought the website was very neat.
Thanks for reading,
Sean :)