My Poem

My poem of choice was 'The Road Not Taken' By: Robert Frost. I chose this poem for quite a few reasons. Three of the reasons being, because Robert Frost is one of my favorite poets, I can relate to it very well, and the impressive wording.

To start, I have always been a great fan of Robert Frosts work. Many of my favorite poems are written by him, but what I like about him is that he doesn't really have a pattern of writing. He writes about different subjects that all relate to different aspects of life. Because of all the more in depth meaning that he expresses it pulls me in to want to read more about it. His style of writing is very descriptive and has fantastic imagery detail weaved into it.

Another reason why I can thoroughly enjoy this poem is because I can simply relate to the bigger meaning that is portrayed within the piece. For example, I think that the poem talks about the decisions in life and which on is the right decision. And I have always had to deal with tough decisions that children really should not have to worry about. But nevertheless, the past is the past and in comparison to that he goes on to say 'I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference'. When he says this he basically is saying that the decisions in life that you make will change your life dramatically in the future.

Finally, the wording in this poem was very impressive and awe inspiring. I enjoy poetry more when it has a neutral amount of complexity in the word choice department. As this poem does have in my opinion. For example, when Frost writes 'In leaves no step had trodden black' which I find a little bit complex but not too much to where your having to look up every other word in the dictionary.

To sum it all up, 'The Road Not Taken' By: Robert Frost is and always will be one of my favorite poems of all time. And that has made all the difference!

5 part extra credit

I have realized that the five part paragraphs are easily misunderstood but when you think about the order you are supposed to write in it becomes not so vague. I have figured out that the best way to write a five part paragraph correctly is to be in the right order at all times and to make sure every aspect has a full foundation to the topic sentence. In my five part paragraph these were the two heaviest pieces that I missed and now I know for this time to write everything with firm connections and making everything orderly and labeling the stanzas or pages the informatyion came from.

Poetry Out Loud

1. Broken Promises by. David kirby
2.Invitation to Love by. Paul Lawrence Dunbar
3. Fern Hill by. Dylan Thomas
4.Candles by. Carl Dennis & The Road Not Taken by. Robert Frost

Part Two:
My most favored of the five poems would have to be the 'Invitation to love' By: Paul Lawrence Dunbar and The Road Not Taken by. Robert Frost because of the emotion and setting of the poems and the poems phrased the setting easily enough to understand what the poem is about but what I have noticed about the poems that I take interest too is that they are compared to aspects bigger than what they appear.

The poem that I enjoyed the least was 'Fern Hill' by. Dylan Thomas because it did not have the content of the requirements that I stated about the poems that I took interest in above and I also know that the 'Fern Hill' poem was very long and drug out.

If I were to choose between the the poems at hand I would choose 'The road not taken' because it is the most thoughtful in my opinion and it is just enough compared to the bigger lesson of the story and it has vocabulary that roll off the tongue like water off of a ducks back.

My personal connection to poems is deeper than I could ever explain in words. Now, obviously there are probably words out there that I could explain this feeling I get when I process the emotion in my brain but I have realized that I do not know of any such words yet and will be anxious to learn them in the future.

Part Three:

The easiest two criteria would have to be the memorization and the accuracy but the other two performance and expression would be the most difficult but I will just have to practice them.

Part Four:

I believe this is a successful performance because the projection and emotion is easily seen to the audience from the person speaking and you could tell that the speaker knew what they were talking about because there is no way that a performance could be fa ken in emotion from understanding.

Part Five:

I think that the poetry out loud competition will be a great yet nerve raking experience for me because it combines two of my favorite things literature and competitive instinct. I am pretty excited to see what will happen and whether I will win or not and hopefully I will do well in the competition.