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Poem suggestions?

Discussion in 'Entertainment and Technology' started by ModernCat, Oct 8, 2015.

  1. ModernCat

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    I will be reading out a poem in front of people who don't know English very well. It's for a poetry festival in non-English speaking country.

    Some people will understand as there will be lots of students who learn English for school.
    Any suggestions?
     
  2. Ryujin

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    The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
    Haven't read anything else by him unfortunately, but that one is great.
     
  3. candyjiru

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    How about Daffodils by William Wordsworth? It's really famous and is about nature so it would be easy to use hand motions and such to help convey the meaning~ ^.^

    I wandered lonely as a cloud
    That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
    When all at once I saw a crowd,
    A host, of golden daffodils;
    Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
    Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

    Continuous as the stars that shine
    And twinkle on the milky way,
    They stretched in never-ending line
    Along the margin of a bay:
    Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
    Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

    The waves beside them danced, but they
    Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
    A poet could not be but gay,
    In such a jocund company!
    I gazed and gazed but little thought
    What wealth the show to me had brought:

    For oft, when on my couch I lie
    In vacant or in pensive mood,
    They flash upon that inward eye
    Which is the bliss of solitude;
    And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    And dances with the daffodils.
     
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    If you have to memorize it, I'd say a short Robert Frost poem like Walking in the Woods on a Snowy Evening, or The Road not Taken or El Dorado, by Edgar Allen Poe. The Raven is a pretty long poem to memorize
     
  5. Ryu

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    Is it bad that I read this as porn suggestions?

    The only poems I can name at the moment are bard songs from skyrim... I feel so useless...