blueangel Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 anyone know a long, ten minute poem for me to perform? a good one. I can't write my own. It has to be something published. Please answer soon. I've been looking ALL over the web and it's all crap. I'm in the Speech and Debate Team and that's what I'm doing it for. Thanks. Link to comment
Itsok Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 The Lady of Shallot. This was an excellent poem brought up in an English course I took. Very easy to be expressive. Give it a read anyhow! Link to comment
annie24 Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 There are books out there that are filled with the most famous speeches/eulogies/poems. I think that would be a good book for you to get and flip through. Link to comment
ShySoul Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 I've always been partial to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." Maybe ask an English teacher for some suggestions as well. Quoth the ShySoul..... nevermore....... Link to comment
smallworld Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 BlueAngel when in doubt, check out the Northon Anthology of English Literature by Abrams at your library or local college bookstore. It's the bible of English Lit. - Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope - Song of Hiawatha by Henry W. Longfellow - Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot Edit: And if all else fails... Link to comment
volution Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It's a great long prose/poem of love lost and regained... link removed It is a probably a bit longer than 10 minutes - but you could always use an excerpt... Link to comment
blueangel Posted February 24, 2006 Author Share Posted February 24, 2006 Thank you, everyone. I've printed them out and shall decide soon- will let you know. Link to comment
ShySoul Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Thank you everyone. You've given me some reading to do. I'm sure they are all good choices. And blueangel, you are going to blow them away at the competition. I just know it. Link to comment
blueangel Posted March 3, 2006 Author Share Posted March 3, 2006 I am doing The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot- yay! It's fun to be all passionate and act these things out. I get lost in it. It's so cool. Hmm...Acting and dancing- the best things invented, I say! Link to comment
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