Poetry Out Loud

I initially choose this poem to be truthful because it wasn't as long as some of the other poems that were like stories. I knew that I would have to memorize it and I wanted a reasonable amount of words to memorize. Now preparing for the competiton I want to make sure I'm using good word inflection and also getting the words right so it's practically second nature to recite it. Im also working on reciting it more fluently like how I would normally speak.

What this poem means to me is that people need to move on with their life. When the whole entire world is against you even when it seems impossible. Even when nothing will ever go right again, somewhere there is still happiness and the world moves on without you and sooner or later something good will happen to you. My personal significance to this poem is that at a time in my life I felt like everyone was turning against me, but I was really blowing things out of proportion and making it worse. I realized that I needed to move on and ignore my hater and live my life and have fun with my friends.

3 Poems by Robert Frost

The road not taken by Robert Frost had a lot more in the poem then just choosing between going here or choosing to go over there. It had depth about how every choice affects you and your life. One wrong choice and your headed down the wrong road and you may not be able to come back. The road may twist and turn to the point of no return, but hopefully like the speaker in the poem he choose the road that benifited him most. Something that would make him happy so he choose as in the poem, "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." which did for him since if he would have went down the path of others the speaker would have been miserable.

I chose this poem because I believes it teaches a good life lesson about how each decision alters your life. This is important to me because I am a bit of a percrastinator and so when I don't want to do something such as homework then I probably will wait till the last minute. But this poem taught me something. Something that I have experienced with my percrastination when I wait till the last second instead of doing it when I had time then i'm usually more miserable and I usually have to miss out of something fun to do. Or even another example that i've realized through this poem. When I choose to work out or condition for basketball and then I go to play in a game I feel a whole lot better and happier to play then when I choose the lazy way out and sit around.

Comment to a classmate: I agree with Amanda about how every split in the road is your decision to make and you have to make it better yourself and not to benefit others or eles you most likely will end up unhappy and stuck on a path you would rather not be on.

The Movie

In the court scene of the book To Kill a Mockingbird I imagined it almost exactly how it was portrayed in the movie. For example I saw the court room of people and how the lower and upper decks were and it was almost exatly like in my mind and it was just like the book described. The judge also looked like how I thought he would look sitting up on his little stand. When Mayella appeared I thought that she looked exactly what my personal interpretation was of her. A kind of gross, greasy woman and thats what she looked like in the movie.

Even though many things were the same in the court scene in the movie as in the book there were a couple of differences. Such as, how I pictured Tom Robinson different then how he was portrayed in the movie. I thought his left arm was going to be like half the size of his right arm but that wasn't the case. I also imagined that the place where the lawyers question people would have its own little stand kind of like in law and order shows but instead it was just a measly little chair. When I saw Bob Ewell I actually thought that he looked to clean and just normal compared to everyone eles where in the book he's portrayed as a grody man below the average person in Maycomb which did not come through for me in the movie.